put across

verb

1. adverb to communicate in a comprehensible way

   he couldn't put things across very well

2. put one across informal.
   to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception

   they put one across their teacher

Example Sentences

“We’re going to continue to see warehouses being put across the street from homes and schools, because it will be OK with the law.”

From Los Angeles Times

However, the technology then needs to be able to adapt this to put across the required tone or volume, to put words together in a natural-sounding way.

From BBC

Mulaney has such a chipper affect that he can put across grim material without weighing the show down, a superpower these days when ambitious comics are often expected to do more than tell jokes.

From New York Times

Some of Basgallop’s ideas pay dividends — Regus’s tone-deaf commitment to keeping his bargain with the CompWare founder has droll results — and there’s pleasure in the arch, offhand way Waltz puts across his character’s old-world weirdness.

From New York Times

As the noble prince Tamino, Ben Bliss added a little schmaltz to his elegant tenor to put across the romance of his first aria for the young crowd.

From New York Times

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