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You use via to mean the path that something takes when it goes somewhere (the places it goes through before it gets there). We can send video, audio and data from any point in the UK, via satellite. This became part of our route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn. John sent the message to Yoko via Hamid.

via

A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) (electronics) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.

via

By way of; passing through. by (means of); using (a medium)

via

(obsolete) Away! Be off!

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Simple sentences

You want to go via the tunnel?
Tom goes from Boston to Chicago with his car via the usual route.
This village can not be reached except via the river.
An aristocratic title is only inherited via the male lineage.
Sadly many people will believe things told to them via an email which they would find implausible face-to-face.
I'd like to return to Tokyo via Honolulu.
He went to London via Paris.
Because she was overseas, she often phoned via Skype.
Can I pay here via Kontaktlos?
She was dumped by her boyfriend via a text message.
Maria was bedridden. The only contact she had with the outside world was via the TV broadcasts.
Humans accomplish amazing things, because they can exchange informations about their knowledge and intentions via the medium of language.
Could I pay via Mastercard?
The thieves entered the building via a window.
The virus can be transmitted via saliva.
A group of languages related via a common ancestor, or proto-language, is referred to as a language family.
Tom broke up with Mary via text message.
Tom went to Boston via Chicago.

Movie subtitles

Most interstellar visiting is gonna be via signalling, not by actual visiting.
Harry will give us venous access, via a large-bore cannula, and then we will immediately give 30 milligrams of ketamine, one gram of paracetamol and one litre of warmed Hartmann's, please.
OK, so we're bagging via LMA, so it's 30:2.
Ashenden's going to Switzerland to find a German agent who's leaving for Arabia shortly via Constantinople.
And now Watson, we shall treat ourselves for a couple of carpet bags, encourage the manufacturers, the countries through which we travel and make our way at leisure into Switzerland via Brussels, Luxemberg.
The dancers all stay at Number 15 in Via Saraceno.
Via les eaux et la terre!
Could you stop at Via della Paglia?
Via della Campanella.
Don't forget: Stay out of the Via Panico!
Will you sail from here or will you go via Rome?
Is Via XXIV Maggio far from here?
Via XXIV Maggio?
She asked me how to get to Via XXIV Maggio, so she must have gone there.
We've never conversed via telepathy before.
I've put the micro-drone drop via the reentry capsules on hold as well.
Jet, can you take us there via Chicago?
It's necessary to get Flora and Kemp to another area, via Whale's use of the lateral camera move, which, as in the theatre, breaks away walls and leads us to another room.
Via the boiler-room, a refuse pit. Through the sewers, in a laundry basket.
But I distinctly received a telegram via Western Union.
All right. Via della Campanella.
Louis. It was therefore theoretically possible that via Mama I might inherit the dukedom.
Your benefactor uses his political mandate to vote the purchase of anything at all. Which he then supplies via a frontman.
Via Lisbon, Dakar, Rio!
Via Margutta 51.
Here is Via Margutta 51. Cinquant'uno. I am very happy.
I'll send it to you now via a text message.
It took eight hours to get here via Paris.
So as you can see I'm doing it for good business via the bylaws of this company.
Can I drop by via della Paglia a second?
Well, Via della Campanella..
Thinking of that girl in the Via Ferretta?
We have to be in Via Ospedaliera at 11:00.
These mighty waters, source of enormous energy, now flow via man-made canals to the huge new basin.
On Via Aurelia.
Via Margutta 51!
Here is Via Margutta 51.
What is your address? Via Margutta 51.

News and current affairs

The cumulative total since the beginning of the first crisis year (2008) means that Spain has financed its entire current-account deficit via the printing press.
In return, Ukraine will uphold its end of the deal: in addition to closing Chernobyl, we will introduce Western nuclear safety standards and renew cooperation with the IMF via the Extended Fund Facility program.
Romney supports gradually increasing retirement ages, a premium-support model for Medicare, and shifting Medicaid (health insurance for the poor) to the states via block grants.
That way, formal haircuts on the face value of debt can be avoided via new bonds that include only a maturity extension and an interest-rate cap that is set below today's unsustainable market rates.
In addition, Germany should delay its fiscal consolidation; if anything, it should cut taxes for a couple of years to boost its own growth and - via trade - that of the periphery.
But, as a new report by Deutsche Bank Research shows, banks' cross-border business - direct or via branches or subsidiaries - has now broadly stabilized.
In China, three-quarters of Internet users get online via mobile phones already; in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do.
Eventually, the only way out is to reset the value of liabilities via restructuring or inflation.
In fact, there are four channels through which the real interest rate affects real commodity prices (aside from whatever effect it has via the level of economic activity).
For example, we can choose how much to collect via a general income tax, a payroll tax, a consumption tax (such as a sales or value-added tax), and so on.
A jagged line loosely joining Tokyo to Jakarta via Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore was sufficient to sustain international cooperation.
The longer this takes, the greater the incentives at the national level to capture a share of global demand via protectionist measures.
The theory goes that if poor countries simply adopt the right policies, and if they follow the advice of rich countries via institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, all will be right.
Some Council members, unhappy with Trichet's dovish stance at the December press conference, made their displeasure known via the press soon after.
Among his likely jobs in Iraq will be to secure a pipeline carrying Iraqi oil from Mosul, Iraq to Haifa, Israel via Syria.
Rumsfeld's hidden mission was to win Saddam's support of a Bechtel-built oil pipeline to run from Iraq via Jordan to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Thus, orderly market-based restructurings via exchange offers need to occur in 2011.
The country was no longer subject to imported deflation via the fixed exchange rate.
The poor international environment hit Brazil's economy mainly via foreign trade, aggressive competition in the Brazilian market, and echoes of the negative expectations prevailing in advanced countries.
The European people, the true sovereigns, must ultimately gain the right to make Europe's policy choices via elections.
Otherwise, the policy satisfies the excess demand via imports, and so raises the world price even more.
When such a debt-fueled bubble bursts, its effects are transmitted directly to the real economy via household-sector balance sheets, with the reduction in consumption contributing to a decline in employment and private investment.
The most obvious asset is China's large and growing domestic market, to which other economies can gain access via trade and investment.
Among his likely jobs in Iraq will be to secure a pipeline carrying Iraqi oil from Mosul, Iraq to Haifa, Israel via Syria. To stop Syria from objecting, the US is now threatening it as well.
Li concluded his statement with the message, delivered via three lines by two canonical Chinese poets from the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, that his home was where he felt safe.
Second, the government budgeting process must be opened up through both public hearings in the national legislature and public participation via the media.
The over-valued dollar caused the US economy to hemorrhage spending on imports, jobs via off-shoring, and investment to countries with under-valued currencies.
Moreover, someday we will know - via sequencing of the whole genome - about rarer genomic variations that are correlated with treatment response or side-effects.
In other words, if Russia restricts the flow of gas to Ukraine for political reasons, but the rest of Europe has gas from other sources, they can simply resell their gas to Ukraine and export it via the Baltic Sea.