How to Use think through in a Sentence

think through

verb
  • All of it is very much thought through.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This plan hasn’t been thought through by the very leaders who passed it.
    — Julie Darling, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • On a rebuilding team, those bets can be worth thinking through.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Even classic color duos can misfire if they’re not thought through.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2026
  • The other sounds like someone thinking through how to say something painful.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Even thinking through the legal details brings me such joy, and I get filled with such hope.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Even thinking through the legal details brings me such joy, and I get filled with such hope.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Many other civil servants have thought through this process themselves.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • However, their decision is well thought through and approved of by the king.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Seahawks don’t think through that lens, Macdonald said.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The goal is to jolt readers out of their complacency and force them to think through the argument of the poem.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • And a lot of it in the beginning was about kind of reliving and thinking through what went down during Covid.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Most of these interpretative moves work fine because they’re thought through and balanced by other moves.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Could Trump have started this war without thinking through the various outcomes?
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of solving problems, the focus becomes helping young adults think through decisions on their own.
    — Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026
  • That said, liquidity is worth thinking through carefully, too.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Leaders and hiring managers can start by thinking through which skills are most valuable to your organization.
    — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The usual cognitive strategies—telling yourself to calm down or trying to think through what’s happening—simply won’t work.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • At its core, the exhibition maintains that drawing is not merely an artistic discipline but a way of thinking through the world.
    — Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • Poor planning, overly ambitious goals, not thinking through the aftermath.
    — NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Our props department thinks through these things in fascinating ways that fans who pay attention to the details will see, like items on a menu in the restaurant.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Whether Washington has thought through that diplomatic dimension is, at best, unclear.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Regardless of how it’s handled, senior leadership teams need to think through these implications.
    — Paul Goydan, Fortune, 13 May 2026
  • But providers are already thinking through possible contingency plans, Fonteno said.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Manager Dave Roberts, who looked down at his card when the throw was in the air, was already thinking through extra innings when the crowd erupted again.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Kambhampati attributed this in part to the team starting earlier in its planning, which gave the members more time to think through their rocket design.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • Coughlin says the goal of the Longevity Preparedness Index is to help people think through how to design those years.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 4 May 2026
  • But as time goes on sophisticated firms will need to establish an approach for thinking through these questions, or risk facing costs—whether slowly or all at once.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Vermette also shared with the audience what the process of thinking through challenges to find the fitting solution for the world being created for each film has taught him.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
  • Healey and Campbell clearly have not thought through the potential dangers and liabilities of their brilliant idea.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026

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