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Example sentences for "get back"

  • Zeb also wanted to see his home, and although he did not find anyone morning for him, the sight of Hugson's Ranch in the picture made him long to get back there.

  • The crowd yelled its disapproval and Umpire Bates called out sharply: "Spears, get back to the bag!

  • McCall dumped a slow teaser down the line, a hit that would easily have scored Rube, but he ran a little way, then stopped, tried to get back, and was easily touched out.

  • And he must be a crackerjack if we're to get back to the lead.

  • Then, with some embarrassment but the air of having made a discovery, he announced that his conscience was troubling him about his work, and he thought he ought to get back to it at once.

  • How can we get back to Shopton in a hurry?

  • There was nothing to do but to get back in the runabout and make all speed for the nearest telephone, and Tom Swift lost little time in doing this.

  • And as soon as we get back we must send some one from the shop to stand guard over the airship," he added in an aside to Jackson.

  • Let's get back to civilization and we'll send back one of the trucks.

  • Miss Timpson usually rushed through the meal in order to get back to her school.

  • Then he started in to tell me about his home life and I listened for ten minutes before I come to enough to get back to the house.

  • I tell ye right now I'm lucky to get back at all.

  • Forget the whole of it and let's get back to--to that brother of yours.

  • To get back to Hamlin, I only needed $1 more than I had.

  • Let's get back to our younger days when my little sister was about two years old and she had two or three brothers who were not much older.

  • So he got the urge to get back to growing more cattle and not so much cotton.

  • He couldn't even get a little money to help us get back to Hamlin.

  • Now let's get back to the story of when I was a boy on the Exum farm.

  • Phil was hungry, and he was anxious to get back to the village to write a letter, but decided that he would wait until the tents were up.

  • No; you and I are going to bed right quick after we get back to the train.

  • It's a good deal like stealing, but I have to have them and I'll send the fellow a new pair if ever I get back to my own show.

  • I'll wait till I get back to school, next fall, and then I'll take it out of you.

  • I will keep my expense account and turn it in to you when I get back.

  • My question is this, Mrs Bold; is your father really anxious to get back to the hospital?

  • He had been anxious to get back to the hospital, but he would have infinitely sooner resigned all pretensions to the place, than have owned in any manner to Mr Slope's influence in his favour.

  • I shall be very glad to get back to my old men again.

  • And then I'll starve myself, and flog myself, and in that way I'll get back my own mind and my own soul.

  • I should have to get back here on the Sunday morning, Mrs. Proudie.

  • Thus each of the little party was satisfied except Dorothy, who longed more than ever to get back to Kansas.

  • Then she came out again to the Munchkins and said: "I am anxious to get back to my aunt and uncle, for I am sure they will worry about me.

  • And now," said Dorothy, "how am I to get back to Kansas?

  • We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

  • Dorothy's life became very sad as she grew to understand that it would be harder than ever to get back to Kansas and Aunt Em again.

  • You must come and see my doctor, when we get back to town.

  • To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  • To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

  • Dunnoo, with his face ashy grey in the moonlight, implored me not to stay but to get back to my tent at once.

  • Having remounted Pornic, who was as anxious as I to get back to camp, I rode round the base of the horseshoe to find some place whence an exit would be practicable.

  • Get back, Billy Fish, and take your men away; you've done what you could, and now cut for it.

  • Before I had been itching to get back to the Front; now I wanted to get on to Ivery's trail, though it should take me through the nether pit.

  • I'll make it all square when I get back to town.

  • Meantime I had to get back to London as inconspicuously as I had come.

  • Let me support the valise until we get back a few yards.

  • It seemed a fair presumption that, as he had gone there with a lady, they would dine leisurely, and Arnold would have plenty of time to get back.

  • Behind me was the door by which I must have come; with a keen desire to get back to the place I had started from, I opened the door and attempted to cross the room.

  • Singleton was the first to speak:-- "How are you going to get back?

  • Look here, Singleton, you want to get back as much as we do, or more.

  • Because I want to get back to the circus.

  • I want to wire the show for some money to get back with.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get back" 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:
    bristol board; coming from the west; get along; get him; get hold; get home; get over; get thee; gets dark; getting back; getting better; getting down; getting hold; getting home; getting late; getting out; getting possession; getting them; getting through; getting very; getting well; money laundering; sexually mature; time before; trifle less; unknown friend