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Example sentences for "get away"

  • There had been, it is true, the boy who frequently brought milk and eggs to the cabin; but he had been very quiet and shy, appearing always afraid and anxious to get away, as if he had been told not to stay.

  • You can't get those things here in Hinsdale, you know; and it takes money, to get away, and to live away after you get there.

  • He saw him out the window there, right after he'd seen you, and he said he wanted to speak to him and he was afraid he'd get away.

  • You must promise me something--promise that if any one asks for me to-morrow before I get away, you will not tell them where I am.

  • Yet you let him be brought here, your partner who looked after you when you were ill, and who helped you to get away!

  • After a time the Morrises did let her out, and she kept her word and never tried to get away.

  • We built up the fire and kept watch, so that the one cub, still in the tree, couldn't get away.

  • I was afraid that he was going to get away, and though I could not hold him, I kept springing up on him, and once I tripped him up.

  • She had seemed very unhappy, and though he had kept her with him all the time, she had acted as if she wanted to get away.

  • I once saw a bear that had been making a desperate effort to get away.

  • Phil and Teddy, as soon as they were able to get away, hurried to the circus lot for their breakfast.

  • You can't get away until I permit you to, and that won't be until something that looks like a policeman comes along.

  • If I get a chance to get away I'll do it, you may depend upon that.

  • I shall surely roll all the way to the bottom, though it might enable me to get away.

  • But see here, young man, you must agree that you will make no effort to get away," demanded the showman a sudden thought occurring to him.

  • I'd do anything to get away from it, I'd be a servant if I could.

  • Look here, if you want to get away from it, I've got an idea.

  • I've been talking to them, and I couldn't get away.

  • The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion.

  • Evidently anxious to get away and be alone, Edwin Drood now resumed his outer clothing, muttering something about time and appointments.

  • They will all be coming out directly; let us get away.

  • But don't let us stop to listen to it; let us get away!

  • All day long I have been trying to get away, and have not been able.

  • The man, much moved, stood there, not knowing how to get away.

  • And Morse answered: 'No, but I think Murdock has hid it somewhere and is trying to get away with it without giving us our share.

  • Maybe there's a hoodoo around here, and it will do us good to get away a few days.

  • But still I have found out that strife has come into the river, and I know not whether ye two will be able to get away; for they are in the river.

  • Sunday night was his busiest night, and he could not, therefore, hope to get away in time to assure himself of their mother's return.

  • Well," said Breeze, with abrupt directness, "did he get away?

  • The first thing I saw was old Judge Piper, puttin' on his best licks to get away from a big can of strawberry ice cream that was trundling after him and trying to empty itself on his collar, whenever a bigger wave lifted it.

  • I'll get away now--and mind, General, a good deal depends on the way you please me in this thing.

  • I'm going to be able to get away in a few days' time," he said, indifferently.

  • A fortnight ago, he took it into his head to give it to me, because he said he believed I should try to get away one of these days.

  • I hope they will get away, just to spite Marks,--the cursed puppy!

  • If he had any other feeling, it was just a longing to get away and go down the hill again to the church.

  • Gyp never lost the sense of having the whip-hand, always felt like one giving alms, or extending favour, yet had a feeling of being unable to get away, which seemed to come from the very strength of the spell she laid on him.

  • Ever since that Sunday, when she avoided the confessional, she had brooded over how to make an end--how to get away from a longing that was too strong for her.

  • In those last days of January he well remembered wandering about in the parks day after day, trying to get away from it.

  • I always feel a little proud of hailing from Boston; my pleasure in the place mounts the farther I get away from it.

  • Then you are anxious to get away," Kate could not help saying.

  • I don't think we have anything to fear in his absence from men whose only wish is to get away from us.

  • Well, it strikes me it ought to be, if you expect to get away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get away" 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:
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