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Example sentences for "get hold"

  • And you will let her see that, just because you couldn't get hold of her, you have given up your Easter party and left your sister in the lurch?

  • An intense desire now seized Robert to get hold of the man at once, before the next Sunday.

  • Catherine, miserable, distrusting the local doctor, and not knowing how to get hold of a better one, had never left him night or day.

  • They are the sort of men after all whom it pays to get hold of, if one can.

  • After a short conference, she steamed clumsily over to get hold of one end of the booms.

  • Of course," went on Taylor after a moment, "we have a strong presumption of conspiracy to get hold of your Boom Company stock, which I believe you put up as security.

  • How'd he get hold of his old sheriff, then?

  • The distraught girl turned to her father and tried to get hold of the keynote of his life; "I want you to tell me things," she said, but the father not understanding only shook his head.

  • In her effort to get hold of and move the sordid human wrecks floating in and out of the door of the settlement house Margaret thought of her father at his desk directing the making of ploughs.

  • Vaguely his mind groped about trying to get hold of words and ideas to express what was in his brain.

  • The sea was pretty rough out here for the small boats, and the ship rolled some, so that when persons tried to get hold of the ladder they were thrown down and sometimes hurt a little.

  • He wanted to conceal his concern but with all his heart wanted to get hold of the message of the strange book, about which men wrangled hour after hour on winter evenings in the store.

  • Do I not know that they come here because they hope to get hold of you?

  • Send down to men a new Christ, one to get hold of us, a modern Christ with a pipe in his mouth who will swear and knock us about so that we vermin who pretend to be made in Thy image will understand.

  • I'd like to get hold of ten acres, and then I could take Simon back.

  • Get hold of the money and bring it here, and Nikíta will hide it.

  • The first person you love, Ann Veronica, is yourself--get hold of that!

  • You got to take the world as it is, and the only possible trade for a girl that isn't sweated is to get hold of a man and make him do it for her.

  • The fact of it is, and this absurd project of yours only brings it to a head, you have begun to get hold of some very queer ideas about what a young lady in your position may or may not venture to do.

  • In such circumstances, who could wonder if they knocked over half the furniture in trying to find their way about or to get hold of a light somewhere.

  • But that was by no means her only achievement of literary diagnosis and the power to get hold of books somehow or other.

  • As I have said, I knew nothing of them and for a moment thought it not improbable that even if I did manage to get hold of their names and addresses they might when they received the letter think it was a hoax.

  • When I get hold of 'IM I'll make his bones rattle.

  • He wanted to get away from himself, but there was nothing to get hold of.

  • Then he wanted to get hold of her, to fasten her, almost to chain her.

  • Once we get hold of that key for half-an-hour, we could learn a lot.

  • She and her father are on bad terms, and it seems more than probable that though she is no longer at Glencardine she has somehow contrived to get hold of the documents in question--at the instigation of her lover, we believe.

  • But not yet; he meant to get hold of him in his own time, properly and effectively according to the rules of the game.

  • He ignored how much there was in it and how far he would have to go in order to get hold of what there was to get—supposing there was a chance at all.

  • How on earth did you manage to get hold of it already?

  • If they had been copied in the ordinary way, one might hope to get hold of the copy.

  • It was necessary to get hold of as much as possible at no matter what figure.

  • Ole joined them; he had not been able to get hold of Arendal at once; he could not get a reply until to-morrow.

  • How the dickens did that groceryman get hold of such a beauty?

  • The Knobbe woman says that certain people has started a plot with detectives an' such like to get hold o' the brat.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get hold" 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:
    except from; get away from the; get down; get her; get him; get married; get off; get possession; get rid; get thee; get them; get through; get well; get you; gets back; getting along; getting away; getting back; getting better; getting down; getting home; getting out; getting possession; going west; plain boiled; what house