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Example sentences for "get down"

  • But say, let's get down to solid earth, Cap'n.

  • Well, I got to get down an' see to gettin' that cable flaked.

  • In the same brain-flash he realized that Jerry would have some minutes of life, due to the air contained in his inflated dress; there was time for him to get down with a spare line and get Jerry up, if he acted promptly.

  • You've got me fair and square, lads, fair and square--but I want to get down to that there wreck again.

  • I will unfasten these blankets before I get down.

  • I can go on by myself," she said, making a little struggle to get down.

  • It took him tin minyits to get down in sections, but he done it.

  • How he longed to get down to it, and cool his poor baked lips!

  • All his fancy was, to get down to the wide wide sea.

  • I am so sleepy, and it's beginning to get down below my belt, to where my leg was hurt.

  • Get down by the river, and bathe them a bit.

  • Just wait till I get down to the bush, my fine fellows," he said aloud.

  • Well, it's not very hard to get down now," said the Very Young Man.

  • And so they decided to take only six pills of the drug and to get down to the bottom of the pit, if possible, without taking more.

  • Our size will soon remain constant and it won't take us long to get down after we've rested.

  • During the first day the party journeyed on without any adventures, but the second morning the negro said to the girl, 'Get down, and let the negress ride instead of you.

  • Then Mohammed with the Magic Finger picked up a stick and struck the old woman with it, saying, 'Get down, and look after the sheep; I want to go to sleep.

  • Ef it's like this on the surface, what is it going to be like when we get down to the bed rock?

  • I had six hands along with me, and we wanted to get down, 'cause we knew the old man would have a cargo ready for us, and we wanted a run of a day or two on shore at Orleans before we started up again, so we held on.

  • I expect it wore a hole for itself in the rock, and if it is as rich as you say on the surface, there is no saying how rich it may be when we get down to the bed rock.

  • How 'm I going to get down, Br'er Rabbit?

  • And he was so anxious to get down to the lake that he forgot to whistle for Allarm.

  • Get down, you young scapegrace, and let the old man rest his weary limbs.

  • The young ambulance surgeon was still there, so quickly had we been able to get down-town.

  • You see, we have to get down to the core of carbon gently," he said, as he picked up the little pieces of iron and threw them into a scrap-box.

  • Let the body remain just where it is until I get down.

  • She didn't read it in an orderly way even then; seemed to be trying to worry the meaning out of it, like one stripping off husks to get down to some sort of kernel inside.

  • The boy stood on the burning deck'--get down, get down!

  • Now the Toyman had to get down on his hands and knees and try to pull the peg out of the ground with his teeth.

  • But I don't like that word--but come on, let's get down to business.

  • Now to get down to business," went on Rimrock quietly, "I tell you that ore is there.

  • Well, let's get down to business," began Rimrock, after the preliminaries.

  • Get down, get down," returned the Mormon.

  • Hello, stranger, get down an' come in," he said.

  • Get down on your knee and shoot and let him come.

  • One tall man marched ahead, crying out to the people by the way, "Get down on your knees!

  • I am on the City Hall roof, and can't get down, as the spring-latch door has blown closed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get down" 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:
    allow himself; garden plants; get away; get his; get off; get some; get through; get well; get you; gets dark; getting away; getting better; getting down; getting hold; getting home; getting late; getting out; getting rid; getting well; heterogeneous generation; human shape; literature and; rather long; send away; state policy; will not hearken unto