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1829 R. Sweet Brit. Flower Garden III. §258 The colour showing through, but not so bright as on the inside.

1875 M. D. Landon Eli Perkins 82 There's no use of my trying to dress without rouge... every wrinkle shows through.

1911 T. Smith Profitable Culture Veg. 307 When..the tips [of the shoots] are just showing through, cutting may begin.

1938 Amer. Speech 13 308/1 The tread [of the tire]..is worn off and the white fabric shows through.

2009 National Art Coll. Fund Rev. 2008–9 70/3 A predilection for sweeping brushstrokes that allow the underpaint to show through.

1874 J. Spedding Lett. & Life Bacon III. v. 207 The personal sensibilities of a man who felt that his affection had been ill-requited..showed through in every line.

1914 R. Gillmore Alster Case viii. 126 ‘You surely don't expect to carry on this business in your hall room.’ His resentment showed through in this fling.

1952 Oxnard (Calif.) Press-Courier 6 Oct. 8/1 A liking for smoking..and for drinking... are merely the cover-up; the weakness of character shows through very plainly.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 25/3 While his erudition shows through on every page, he isn't flaunting it.

1983 Times 17 Oct. 18/6 Although there were grounds for believing that the recession was lifting,..[the group] did not believe that any improvement would show through yet.

1995 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 25/4 Interest rate worries showed through in Courtaulds, down 18p at 407p.

1999 S. Slatter & D. Lovett Corporate Recovery ii. 14 By the time the financial impact of the causes of decline show through it may be too late to save the company.

2007 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 2 May The benefits of the merger which formed Alliance Boots last July began to show through in full-year results.