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Example sentences for "get through"

  • I think by the time I get through, I'll be qualified to run a government on some small Pacific Isle.

  • What little knowledge I start with gets cross-eyed before I get through.

  • If overcoming difficulties makes character, then I will have as many characters as the Chinese alphabet by the time I get through.

  • He was anxious to get through that he might go home.

  • Then when I get through I can earn so much money and be such a help at home.

  • She was anxious to get through as quickly as possible that she might take David back to Jim Goban's.

  • But I have to plug away at it, and when I get through I know less than when I started.

  • Come on, let's get through grub, I want to dress.

  • Say, it's a queer way for a fellow to get through college, isn't it?

  • But them log houses was better than these 'cause the wind couldn't get through them.

  • Get through shucking, they would give you dinner.

  • I ran through a gate and he couldn't get through.

  • Levin went back to his hotel, and was dismayed at the thought that all alone now with his impatience he had ten hours still left to get through.

  • He had to get through at least two hours more.

  • Only I don't know if they'll manage to get through; it's so slushy.

  • You managed to get through a good many years," said Cynthia, looking at the pavement.

  • Faith, this war has brought nothing but misery, and how we are to get through it, God knows!

  • I had several tumbles in the snow-covered mud, but there was nothing to be done except to struggle on and trust to good luck to get through.

  • This of course made me more sorry than ever that I had allowed the spy to get through my fingers.

  • She tried once or twice to get through to Alan, but he was always eating; he looked very like a young Uncle Stanley this evening.

  • A man who had to get through so many daily hours of real work did not dissipate his energy in speculation.

  • If by any chance I don't get through, I want to be cremated; I want to go back as quick as I can.

  • I really don't know how we manage to get through a day, let alone a lifetime, without absolute disaster.

  • Why, I don't even know how to get through my interview with her to-day without lying to her like a politician.

  • If I ever tried to get through a door and failed, it might not be pleasant for me.

  • To get through it, even with vessels of the lightest draft, it was necessary to clear off a belt of heavy timber wide enough to make a passage way.

  • I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through.

  • The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.

  • We'll have a strike here before we get through.

  • And that you'll spend anything it costs to get through on time.

  • And maybe I can show him that we'll be a good deal fairer to him before we get through than Mr. Grady will.

  • Some of the boys up at the office say there's going to be fun with December wheat before they get through with it.

  • You think we'll get through in time, don't you, Mr. Peterson?

  • Would it be possible for me to get through?

  • Anyway," declared Prescott, "I have to get through.

  • I guess you'll have to hire a team at the livery-stable; take you about three days to get through.

  • Those of the party who went to Los Angeles managed in one way or another to get through on schooners, and many of them, after a year or two of hard work, made some money and returned to their homes in Illinois.

  • If we failed to get through, they could probably live as long as the oxen lasted and would then perish of starvation.

  • Several of the Jayhawkers having once started on this route were very anxious to get through on it if a way could be found for them to do it, and therefore searched farther and with greater determination than the others.

  • As we pushed on we came to some old windfalls that were troublesome to get through.

  • At present, the upper part is entirely choked up with blocks of stone and rubbish, and it will be a very awkward job to get through it; but so far, it seems to me, it is that or nothing.

  • If I am killed, it does not matter; while if you were killed all would be lost for, if the explosion did not burst the stone, I am sure that we should never be able to get through it, without you to direct us.

  • At any rate, as we saw the light above us, only some thirty feet up, there ought not to be above twenty feet of closely-packed stuff to get through.

  • If you come to a big solid block, I don't see how you are going to get through it.

  • It was difficult to get through it, except by paths made by the buffalo and other animals.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get through" 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:
    branching stem; follows that; get along; get away from here; get away from the; get down; get him; get off; get out; get over; get the; get thee; get them; gets back; getting along; getting money; getting ready; getting them; getting through; getting tired; getting well; seafaring life; second shot; seems good; solar year; yard long