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Example sentences for "get"

Lexicographically close words:
gests; gesture; gestured; gestures; gesturing; getai; getaway; gete; geten; gethan
  1. One must get on with the plot" It was a grievous literary fault to break continuity, to be led away from the issue by niceties of expression.

  2. If it wasn't for looking after meals, a man on the road might get right down lazy.

  3. I saw him get out of his buggy to see the monument, and I went up after, and led him over to show Jim's epitaph, which I took to be a good epitaph, except the second line.

  4. But sometimes it won't rain till you're gray waiting for it, and sometimes it will snow so the only way to get home is to stay inside, and sometimes it will rain like the bottom fallen out of a tub.

  5. If a man's going anywhere tonight, he'll be apt not to get there.

  6. Then, on the next voyage, I shall sail as far as China and will get you anything you ask!

  7. But the fairies would not let him stop, for Dutch fairies never get tired.

  8. He looked tired, while puffing and blowing, and he could hardly get his breath.

  9. But we shall get the glory of it," the elves shouted in chorus.

  10. To get this grand work of hanging in the spire done in one night, and before daylight, also, required a whole regiment of fairy toilers, who must work like bees.

  11. Put away your coin where it won't get mouldy and show that a penny that keeps moving is not like a rolling stone that gathers no moss.

  12. We shall help you and get our friends, the elves, to do the same.

  13. The first maid, who had pulled open the drawer and let the Oni get out, held up broom and duster, as if to take oath.

  14. They were bound to see her and get their money's worth in looking, for they had paid a stiver (two cents) admission to the show.

  15. When he heard of any old fellow, who wanted to save the cost of candles, he would get a kabouter to lead him off in the swamps, where the sooty elves come out, on dark nights, to dance.

  16. By and by, the men built a dam to get plenty of water in winter for the rotting of the flax stalks.

  17. The whole program was more amusing than anything that an ape, goat, or donkey could get up.

  18. Or, they get loose in the kitchen, rattle the dishes around, and make a great racket.

  19. Now he even appeals to our coarser senses that he may excite us and thus get us once again into his power.

  20. Then I get angry with all these people, and afraid of them; and I must have the desert to become well disposed again.

  21. We do not get angry when we see the charms of health resume their play, and we contemplate the sight as if transformed, gently and still fatigued.

  22. Whenever you applaud and cheer you have in your hands the conscience of the artists--and woe to art if they get to know that you cannot distinguish between innocent and guilty music!

  23. Dab Kinzer and his friend were prompt enough in coming to the rescue of their unfortunate fellow-crabber; but to get him out of the queer wreck he had made of that punt was a tough task.

  24. Water-cresses will do to get along with until the other plants can be found.

  25. You'll get the knack of it in five minutes.

  26. But they'll get away," said Dab, snatching the scoop.

  27. I wouldn't take Bab at any price; she'd only get into some scrape and upset the whole plan.

  28. Yes, and the crabs would get their feet wet and so would Dick; but he resigned himself to his circumstances and pushed away.

  29. Shall I get the books when I buy the other things?

  30. I'll pay for it, or I'll get you another, or I'll do anything in the world you tell me to.

  31. But how could I get it if it was locked up?

  32. You'd better look out or you'll get reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

  33. It's better than clams, only you can't always get one.

  34. Then I'll drive on to the barn, and not say a word, but send Ben to get something out of that room.

  35. He’d gotten this far; somehow he would get the rest of the way.

  36. He didn’t know whether he had the strength to do it or not, but he had to get Morge up to the dam and into one of the unfilled molds.

  37. The god was his problem; therefore he must get it out of the way, himself, without expecting help from anyone.

  38. Miss Vessy is powerful wise, and maybe she'll get the better of that wicked hat.

  39. When I get the furnace in such shape that it will run itself I will take my daughter to Europe and give her a musical education.

  40. Make haste to find some easy life or Joe shall get you a husband.

  41. If any man acts in anything without orders, or halloos upon the road, he may get this lash or he may get my knife.

  42. Why, I hardly get into any family before I make love to some member of it, and if I don't vamose with a black wench, it's with her mistress.

  43. But it is gone; I cannot get it back; it will not come.

  44. He says white society is all against him, and he'll get even with it.

  45. If you can ever get it from him, Dave, and destroy it, you will be doing a useful act, and I will reward you well.

  46. Milbun's gwyn get a gal out yonda in forest.

  47. I suspect, Joe, that you have run afoul of Samson, the hired man of Meshach Milburn, who is a boxer, though I wonder that he could get away with your youth and size.

  48. You're not a free man, Samson, if you're afraid, and are like these low slave negroes who dare nothing if they can only get a little low pleasure.

  49. Her branch of the Associated Charities is in Laurel Street, not far from our house, you know; and the very day after our last meeting I posted off to get my 'chore.

  50. I think the 'Prisoners' a good book, and we shall doubtless get some hints from it.

  51. I feel very happy about my lads, and am surprised to find how well I get on with them.

  52. It is perfectly amazing how little poor people's things cost, and yet they can't get the small amount of money needed without working themselves to death.

  53. And before I get through I hope to convince you that this statute is unconstitutional.

  54. If others claim the right, where did they get it?

  55. You will get your revenge on him through all eternity--is not that enough?

  56. Where did a church or a nation get that right?

  57. If I could look at you and say it, I could get it right.

  58. I don't mind telling you that I locked the letter in the drawer with a shiny little pistol I have had for some time, so that I can't get to the pistol without seeing the letter.

  59. Once get your imagination going properly again and the days are rose and gold.

  60. And, if I have not angered you beyond words, let me know how you get on.

  61. And, sometimes, I get to wondering if, after all, one has the right to meddle in other people's lives.

  62. I'll get to understand," he promised, with a thrill as he thought how the lesson would be learned.

  63. He is very ill, with heart trouble, and the doctors think his chance is to get to Nauheim at once.

  64. My first personality couldn't lift your letter off to get the pistol.

  65. Your case looks hopeless to you, but doctors have been wrong plenty of times; diseases take unexpected turns; you may get well.

  66. Still, I'm going on living till I get your next letter--I promise, as you ask.

  67. She is going to be there when I get back.

  68. But because you are good, and saving souls is your job, and because you think my soul might get wrecked, for those reasons it does mean a little I think.

  69. It is Cupid's middle name; what more natural than that they should get married?

  70. What did the Weather do to get herself so talked about?

  71. So deep-seated is Dutch cleanliness that Godliness (in the next seat) must get up and cling to a strap.

  72. To that end he spends a large part of his time in scheming how to get rid of all the other tints.

  73. All he wants to know is whether he will get the particular slice he has mentally reserved for himself.

  74. Let's get some better idea of this place," said he.

  75. Given such stock to work with--provided I get the chance--who shall say anything's impossible?

  76. I--I must get back home," she said weakly.

  77. He could get the old man to tell him nothing concerning these terrific ceremonies.

  78. Tell me," said he, "where did you get that line of verse you quoted last night?

  79. Wherever we settle down we can get along for a few days on what game I can snare or shoot with the few remaining cartridges.

  80. But come, come; let's get out o' this anyhow.

  81. But now let's get at those records again.

  82. Give 'em a few with the automatic, while I get this going!

  83. The only way to get in here is to cut it open," said Allan at last.

  84. Come, come, let's get to work again, for there's so endlessly much to do.

  85. But I certainly will change matters when I get back.

  86. But, once I get my right hand free--I'm ready for whatever comes!

  87. Just wait till I get a chance at 'em, that's all!

  88. Now I will get a lectica and have you carried out to the hills.

  89. There are plenty of fir trees growing near the edges of the swamps, and from the roots of these we can get tar.

  90. Moreover, I may tell you that I shall as soon as possible get Boduoc with me.

  91. As I shall ride into Rome with you, you can there get one before going to see Nero.

  92. I will get him a cup of hot ass's milk; that will give him strength without fevering his blood.

  93. The great thing is to get to this place they speak of, and to prepare it to receive the women and other fugitives.

  94. There are plenty of wild boars among the mountains, and we can always get a goat when they are lacking.

  95. If she should express any desire to see me, I will get Scopus to provide a vehicle to carry me to Rome; but in a few days I hope to be about.

  96. Some day, Aemilia, if you return to Britain with Beric, as I hope you will do, and Pollio becomes a commander of a legion, I will get him to apply for service there.

  97. But the wolves give us nothing in return, and save for the sport no one would trouble to hunt them; and it is only by a general order for their destruction, or by the offer of a reward for their heads, that we shall get rid of them.

  98. It strikes me that our greatest difficulty will be to get our cattle across the morasses to firm ground.

  99. It may not be long before you have to play your part there, and I should like you to get accustomed to the scene, the wall of faces and the roar of applause, for these things are apt to shake the nerves of one unaccustomed to them.

  100. We must get Pollio to take us tomorrow to see the other Britons.

  101. For that I care nothing whatever, Scopus; besides, you would get more credit from my winning in those games than from my being killed in the others.

  102. Let us go down, get some food, and then have a bath and sleep for a while.

  103. One of them told me, in confidence, she wished they could get out.

  104. I told Jane Ray what I had seen, and she said, at once, "We will get in and see what is in there.

  105. Did he not get rid of it very ingeniously, when he inserted the following remarks instead of it?

  106. What pledges could I get to satisfy me, that I, on whom her dependence must be, would be spared by those who I had reason to think were then wishing to sacrifice me?

  107. Maybe, though, if he could get her to taking some of those tonics for women.

  108. If I asked for immortality, you'd give it, say; but then I'd get some horrible disease and beg and plead for death.

  109. I can't even get back without dismissal or finishing your task!

  110. Plenty of people get up early around here.

  111. It didn't get started until your Middle Ages.

  112. I warned you some of us get conditioned to a habit the first time.

  113. There was only one point where he could get a hold on the hillside--the jutting bole of a tree just beneath them, and beneath the dyke of rock and trees.

  114. It was hard to tell what to do all in a minute; but I saw at once the best thing was to act for all, and to get all the men inside the house.

  115. When the trader get angry once more, he turned to me, and the look in his face make me sorry.

  116. You are thieves now; if you fight and kill, you will get the rope, every one.

  117. When my wife step on board that ship I see her face get pale, and something strange in her eyes.

  118. I'll get liquor for her," he said presently.

  119. There was now but one thing--for me to get away.

  120. You could get to it by a hard climb up a precipitous pathway, or by a ladder of ropes which swung from his cottage door down the cliff-side to the sands.

  121. There was but one way: the girl must get there.

  122. If we don't get the girl, out goes his torchlight straight.

  123. To-morrow he'll get the breakfast he's paid for.

  124. I couldn't get rid of him, until I threatened him with a box on the ear.

  125. They won't have any horses till they get beyond Wapsey's Wood.

  126. By so doing, we might get our good king into disgrace.

  127. If ye'll just keep on at yer leisure, I'll overtake you afore you can get to t'other side o' the wood.

  128. I do all I can to get her take on to him; for I believe Wull Walford to be a worthy lad: an' he mean well for my gurl.

  129. I know theer captain'll try to get him beheaded.

  130. All they'll get will be a yes and a no; and that not very civilly, unless they deserve it.

  131. I must get these letters ready against the arrival of my messengers.

  132. By the time you could get them, he will have gone where I don't know to find him.

  133. It would get me that colonelcy--true as a trivet; and you, my worthy cornet, would become Captain Stubbs!

  134. I'd give a month's pay to get hold of the comical villain that planned it.

  135. I've come to save you--to get you out of this ugly place.


  136. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absorb; accept; achieve; acquire; addle; admit; affect; aggravate; amaze; annoy; answer; appreciate; apprehend; arrive; ascertain; assimilate; assume; badger; baffle; bag; bait; bamboozle; beat; become; beg; beget; beset; blast; boggle; bother; bound; breed; bring; bristle; brood; buffalo; bug; buy; call; canter; capture; carry; catch; children; claim; clear; clutch; coax; collapse; collar; collect; come; commission; compass; comprehend; conceive; confound; contact; contract; contrive; convince; copulate; corral; cost; crack; credit; croak; daze; decipher; decode; derive; deserted; determine; develop; devil; dig; digest; discompose; discover; disentangle; dispatch; disturb; dividend; divine; dog; dope; drain; draw; earn; earnings; educe; effect; elicit; engender; enlist; erase; erupt; evoke; exasperate; exercise; explain; extort; extract; family; father; fathom; fetch; figure; find; fit; fix; float; floor; folks; follow; form; fry; fuddle; gain; gains; gall; gallop; gate; generate; get; gleaning; grasp; grate; gripe; gross; grow; guess; harass; harvest; hatch; have; hear; hearth; heckle; hit; hoard; hop; hotfoot; hound; house; household; ice; impress; income; incur; induce; inflame; influence; inspire; instigate; intake; interest; interpret; invent; invite; irritate; issue; ken; killing; know; land; launch; lead; leap; learn; lick; litter; locate; lope; lucre; make; makings; master; maze; memorize; menage; molest; mother; motivate; move; muddle; multiply; mystify; nag; nail; needle; nest; net; nettle; obtain; off; offspring; open; output; overdose; palm; partake; pelf; penetrate; people; percentage; perplex; perquisite; persecute; pester; pick; pickings; pique; plague; plumb; pocket; poll; possess; pother; prepare; prevail; proceeds; procreate; procure; produce; profit; prompt; propagate; provoke; psych; pull; purchase; push; puzzle; quarry; raise; rasp; ravel; reach; read; ready; realize; reap; receipt; receipts; receive; resolve; retrieve; return; returns; revenge; revenue; riddle; ride; rile; royalty; ruffle; run; sack; savvy; scare; score; secure; seize; sense; settle; show; sicken; sink; sire; snap; snatch; solve; spat; spawn; spring; sprint; stagger; steal; step; stick; stir; store; strike; stump; sway; take; tease; throw; torment; touch; trace; transport; trip; trot; twig; understand; undo; unlock; unravel; unriddle; untangle; untwist; vex; waste; wax; wealth; welcome; win; winnings; work; worry; yield; young


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    get away; get away from the; get her; get his; get hold; get home; get married; get out; get over; get the; get thee; get them; get well; gets dark; getting along; getting away; getting back; getting down; getting hold; getting home; getting late; getting money; getting out; getting possession; getting tired; getting well