Definition of "put through" [put through]

• To connect (a telephone caller with intended callee). (verb)
• To cause to endure (verb)
• To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity. (verb)

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• "Once I was put through to his room, I waited for him to answer but was disappointed when Mommy Dearest picked up."
• "From a public phone I called the office of the Portland Press Herald, asked to be put through to the news desk, and told the woman who answered that there was a body in the house of Carter Paragon in Waterville but that the police didn't know about it yet."
• "While lying thuson our oars by the side of the stream, in the heat of the day, our boat held by an osier put through the staple in its prow, and slicing the melons, which are a fruit of the East, our thoughts reverted to Arabia, Persia, and Hindostan, the lands of contemplation and dwelling-places of the ruminant nations."