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Example sentences for "get the"

  • If customers approve my style And like my manner and my smile I help the firm to get the pelf, But what is more I help myself.

  • So now he had to go home to get the money, and in the evening he came back, bringing with him a bag with two bushels in it, which he set down on the bench.

  • Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

  • In other words, if I'm kept waiting much longer you'll get the bird.

  • When I had caught it, I went on to get the shirt.

  • I'm beginning to get the hang of the thing.

  • I took out my sketch-book and made a little picture of the Jungfrau, merely to get the shape.

  • The result is that we rob ourselves of the sweetest part of the treat; we get the whiskey, but we don't get the sugar in the bottom of the glass.

  • Of course we frequently manned the poles and shoved earnestly for a second or so, but every time one of those spurts of dust and debris shot aloft every man dropped his pole and looked up to get the bearings of his share of it.

  • To get the better of; to have the advantage of.

  • Poor girl, her jaws had had a wearisome rest now for a while, and I was expecting to get the consequences.

  • You'll get the letter in the morning mail.

  • For, if she were a "deep one," how could he hope to get the truth?

  • I shan't make it again--if I get the chance.

  • It may be that you'll get the chance to make some extra money.

  • I have been over it a fairish number of times, but I have never been able to get the hang of it.

  • He said he must drink something, however, and climbed upon the seat, and leant over to get the bottle.

  • I reminded him of George, and how we had to get the boat up to Shepperton by five o'clock to meet him, and then he went for George.

  • Get the tango on its native tairn'--or words to that effect.

  • But I think I'll get the hang of it very soon.

  • Senior, just because he is no longer on earth, has failed to get the joy of knowing that his son has realized his fondest dreams.

  • I think the most difficult thing in teaching, as well as the most interesting, is to get the children to tell you their real thoughts about things.

  • Mr. Roger Pye is going to get the paint in town today.

  • Anne hastened to the sitting room closet to get the platter.

  • We get the effect, it goes straight home to us, but we do not know why.

  • Look you, now, if we lay here in camp, there might be archers skulking down to get the wind of us; and here would you be, none the wiser!

  • In that case they'll get the secret of it to use for themselves, when the contract goes to them by default.

  • Get the men, Serato, and we'll raise your wages two sols a week.

  • He knew the young lady who had waited on him, and, for reasons of his own, he did not want her to know that Mary was to get the box.

  • Our rivals have induced the men to go on strike in order to hamper us with the work so they'll get the job.

  • I don't want the dear old chump to get the fright of his life, and he sure will if he goes too close.

  • He tried in vain to get the magneto to resume the giving out of sparks, and, failing in that, he switched on the batteries.

  • Anxious to demonstrate that he was right in his theory, Tom hurried from the library to get the model of which he had spoken.

  • The colored man knew how to get the monoplane in shape for a flight, as he had often done it.

  • The casement was open, and Tom noted that the screen was also unhooked, It had been closed when he went to get the model, he was sure of that.

  • Now, I've got an idea," Daylight said, hastening to get the conversation on less perilous ground.

  • But I'd have to be out ploughing once in a while," he warned, "or driving to town to get the grub.

  • What'd they-all stake the big flat for if they-all didn't get the hunch?

  • I get the automobiles, and the porterhouse steaks, and the soft beds.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get the" 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:
    get away; get away from here; get away from the; get down; get him; get into; get some; get the; get thee; get there; get well; gets dark; getting along; getting home; getting ready; getting rid; getting through; getting very; getting well; heavenly light; quite overcome; said the old gentleman; take great; this style; unlike the; years previously