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Example sentences for "get along"

  • I was foolish enough to let him guess--yes, I told him that I had a hard time to get along.

  • Miss Phipps had, it seemed, told her maidservant that, owing to the steadily increasing cost of living, of food and clothes and every item of daily expense, she was finding it more and more hard to get along.

  • Before he died he told me he hoped he'd left me well enough off to get along.

  • She ain't got enough to get along on, 'cause she told me she hadn't.

  • When father died he left me, so he thought, with enough income to get along on.

  • And then, niggers won't be encouraged to work at a price for their labour; and how are you going to get along in this climate, and with such an enormous population of vagabonds?

  • Free nigger, when 'e old, don't gwane to get along much.

  • There was room enough below the cliffs (which are nothing there to yours, John), for horse and man to get along, although the tide was running high with a northerly gale to back it.

  • But you'll get along if you mind your eye.

  • We don't do it, and I think we get along just as well--and better.

  • She had no confidence in doctors, but said she reckoned she would get along now, for she had sent for the seventh son of a seventh son, and didn't I think he could certainly cure her?

  • Pantaleone confirmed with a severe air); but that still, thank God, they managed to get along!

  • So you can't get along on five dollars a week?

  • She was a tall, angular female, with the worn look of a woman who has a hard struggle to get along.

  • I have a hard time to get along myself, and it makes me sympathize with them that has had ill luck.

  • So for three dollars Sam got a sufficient supply to get along with, though hardly enough to make a display at a fashionable watering place.

  • For he had noticed that when Feklitus couldn't understand anything in his lessons, he always went to Elsli secretly for help, for he didn't want the big boys to know that he couldn't get along without it.

  • Every man for himself, that's what I say; that's the way to get along.

  • That's the way you want to do to get along--get right in and not be afraid.

  • I went to studying what had been done, and soon came to the conclusion that I just knew a little--about enough to get along running.

  • She was an Irish girl with rich red hair, and as mine was of an auburn tinge we didn't get along worth a cent.

  • Heaven only knows how we are going to get along.

  • Still I find it hard to get along on this sum, though I am as economical as possible.

  • She has been very kind to me, and though she finds it so hard to get along, she has told me she will keep me as long as she has a roof over her head, though just now I cannot pay my board, because my income is gone.

  • He ought to have had a thorough good man at the beginning, to get along well.

  • Oh, this kind of thing, because aunt Lucy doesn't understand it, and can't get along with it so well.

  • With so many little workers you ought to get along finely.

  • But you must find it hard to get along on nine a week.

  • Yes," the woman answered listlessly, "we get along.

  • And in what manner have you managed to get along so well with the crops, on the place, itself?

  • I never knew her to get along so fast, considering the wind; and really there was a short time when I began to think she held her own, the lugger being jammed up as close as she could be.

  • Now you taeke that an' get along back to yer friends an' yer playin', and let me get on with my work.

  • A single man can, however, get along, more or less, on fifty pounds more or less.

  • She added in a postscript that if he could find it in his generous heart to let her have a still little more next quarter it would be most acceptable, because every day seemed to make it harder and harder for her to get along.

  • They just couldn't get along, so they got divorced.

  • Jest me and my wife, but it takes pluggin' away to get along.

  • He thinks he can make her do like he wants her all the time and they don't get along.

  • And needless to say Leopold can't get along on his salary and appanage.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get along" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black frock; cold blood; common purpose; each captain; false step; get away from here; get hold; get married; get rid; get the; get them; gets dark; getting along; getting away; getting back; getting better; getting hold; getting married; getting money; getting rid; getting through; getting tired; half thick; inch square; many hours; thousand things