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Example sentences for "gets"

Lexicographically close words:
geten; gethan; gether; gethered; geting; gett; getta; gette; gettee; getten
  1. If this gets into the papers, heads will roll.

  2. As soon as the prowl car gets here we'll take you right on down to St. Vincent's.

  3. And if you also know what he plans to do when he gets where he's going, you've got an absolute lead-pipe cinch to work with.

  4. Where he gets it, is his own affair, and him and Joyce don't ask no favours.

  5. Jude gets awfully sleepy in the heat," Joyce whispered; "you don't mind?

  6. Oh, it's plain common sense to be with her, instead of against her, when she gets fully awake.

  7. When Gaston calls for his mail, he gets it.

  8. If Slavin gets him, his wife and babies will never see him on earth or in heaven.

  9. When he gets repentant, instead of shooting himself, he comes to Mrs. Mavor.

  10. But don't you know, youngster, the water gets into these trumpets, and makes them sound different?

  11. If he once gets hold of me, he'll give me a squeeze I shall not like.

  12. When she gets older she will replace my regular governess, and I shall save the salary.

  13. Have you considered what is likely to happen, when he gets this?

  14. We'll be in the Solar System less than a week after he gets there.

  15. When Stutsman gets into the game," he said, "all hell will break loose.

  16. If he really gets that, it will be something worth having.

  17. If Chambers really gets that machine of his to rolling, space will be the only place big enough to hide in.

  18. If he gets close enough so he can fill those accumulators, he'll pack a bigger wallop than we do.

  19. If somebody else gets in the way, of course they have to take the rap along with him.

  20. A tramp who is given a quarter feels a deal more lucky than if he gets a chance to earn a dollar.

  21. They were filled with fear, and fear is the finish of everything upon which it gets a clutch.

  22. After having written all this, it seems to me that I look upon what has passed with more calmness; and compassion gets the better of my indignation.

  23. Do you think she ought to have all the meanest, hardest work in the world, and get paid nothing for it, working from the time she gets up in the morning till she goes to bed at night?

  24. Work's work, and it makes no difference who does it, as long as it gets done!

  25. I would like Rosa to write and tell me how she gets on at school.

  26. We must stop that before it gets any worse.

  27. If he gets tired of hearing the story, he's got other thoughts to occupy his mind.

  28. You could tell that what he meant was "When Stanley Woodward starts out for a thing, he gets it.

  29. It's a curious thing, isn't it, Sir Gilbert, that when a man is really satisfied with himself he gets to look like a sheep.

  30. No one gets himself up in that style who means to go in for serious crime.

  31. It was all very well pulling my leg last night, and I didn't mind it a bit; but a thing like that gets to be stale the next morning.

  32. I'm not quite sure how it's done, but the taste all goes out of it, and it gets extremely tough.

  33. Any man who knows anything about women gets into the way of judging them very largely by the expression of their eyes.

  34. For instance, I have noticed that if you chop up an onion with a knife, and then spread butter with the same knife, the butter gets a most objectionable taste.

  35. Everything else he gets will have more or less paraffin in it, except the butter, and it's to taste of onions.

  36. Not that it will really be much use if the judge gets at him.

  37. I see no reason to alter my opinion that she will marry and afterwards kill Simpkins as soon as ever she gets the chance.

  38. Foolish boys that knock at a door in wantonness, will not stay till somebody open to them; but a man that hath business will knock, and knock again, till he gets his answer.

  39. Like a letter in a word, or a word in a sentence, he gets his meaning from his context; but the sentence is meaningless without him; rays from the whole universe converge in him.

  40. Robinson used to say: "It is ordained of almighty God that the man who dips into everything never gets to the bottom of anything.

  41. In knowing self in connection with moral law, man not only gets his best knowledge of self, but his best knowledge of that other self opposite to him, namely, God.

  42. He gets determined and obstinate about it.

  43. In reality it gets over her maiden modesty in the best way--by wise authority.

  44. Banana's swift and nimble, His way is safe and slick; He gets out of his trouser-leg With a wiggle and a kick.

  45. It very often gets them shot too full of large and untidy holes.

  46. That sort of thing gets on a reader's nerves; it's too much like watching a man walk a tight-rope and wondering if he won't slip presently.

  47. Oh, this dress always gets in my way--" She was gone.

  48. Don't you pity the poor Dragon, Gladys, who never gets a chance in life and has to live always between two book-covers?

  49. Just like a woman who gets disturbed o' nights," pronounced Sam Rimmer, thinking of the ghostly presence that was believed to haunt the house.

  50. If I hadn't learnt that nobody gets no good by interfering atween men and their wives, I'd ha' telled Stubbs and Tanken long ago what was going on.

  51. Reed shall come up to the Manor as soon as he gets home, sir," she said, in answer to Tod's message.

  52. You puts this here gownd in of a Wednesday morning, or so, and gets it out of a Saturday night to wear Sundays.

  53. Ten times a-day she will give her these drops of cold brandy-and-water: and I know she gets up for the same purpose once or twice in the night.

  54. When you have to look far back to things, recollection sometimes gets puzzled as to the order in which they happened.

  55. She gets very good wages, better than she had with me, and helps to keep her mother.

  56. Well, she will be in luck--whoever gets him.

  57. Other houses seem to have their days, turn and turn about; but that 'un gets him constant.

  58. A few shillings paid to her weekly while she gets up her strength might set her going again.

  59. If he happens to be here when I come in, he gets up and goes away.

  60. And, as sure as we are born, this new dodge of education, if it ever gets a footing, will turn the country upside down.

  61. We do her business at old Belford's, and she gets talking about the money to him, making no scruple of openly wishing it was hers.

  62. It is a fine, manly sport, for with all the odds against him, the fox often gets away.

  63. When it gets so thick as to be difficult to beat add a little vinegar, then add the juice of the lemon and the whipped cream, and place on ice until desired to be used.

  64. A man of honesty and character seldom gets into difficulty at his club.

  65. Fruit also should be carefully packed by itself, for if food gets mixed and mussy, even a mountain appetite will shun it.

  66. The gossip of couriers and maids at a foreign watering-place reaches American ears, and unluckily gets into American newspapers sometimes.

  67. As, for instance, the drawer gets the word "Africa" and the question "Have you an invitation to my wedding?

  68. If a housekeeper gets a number of German servants in training and thinks them perfect, she need not be astonished if some fine morning she rises and finds them gone off to parts unknown.

  69. One gets a wholesome sense of invigorating sea air, healthy exercise, and that delightful smell of the short, fresh grass.

  70. If one gets a cup of tea in Spain, there is no cream to put in it; and to many tea drinkers, tea is ruined without milk or cream.

  71. It is often the fate of the hostess, in the busy season, to invite forty people before she gets twelve.

  72. It is whispered about amongst the bridesmaids; it gets into the papers.

  73. In the principal hotels of Spain one gets all the evils of both Spanish and Gascon cookery.

  74. But Carlyle gets better and writes his noble essay on Robert Burns, the life of John Sterling, Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches.

  75. Yet many a man gets on without any of these.

  76. What will we do to pass away the time till it gets cooler?

  77. I have a great many flowers, and this fall, when the seed gets ripe, I would like to exchange flower seeds.

  78. If it gets broken, send it to none but a first-class machinist for repairs.

  79. If he gets into your patch of musk-melons, he'll know just exactly what to do with them.

  80. She gets up early in the morning and goes round to every house in the settlement to get news for the bird council.

  81. One day the Wild Boy said to his brother, "I wonder where our father gets all that game; let's follow him next time and find out.

  82. Every man bows to the bush he gets bield frae.

  83. The eye never gets time to rest long on anything apart from Him and His righteousness.

  84. Whereas,' ses Joe, looking round for support, 'if we gets up a little collection for you and you should find it convenient to desart.

  85. And he won't mind so long as he gets an opportunity of acting to us.

  86. He gets worked up to such a pitch that sometimes I almost think he believes it himself.

  87. I got here--that train gets here about midnight; leaves Reading at ten-thirty, and gets here some time between twelve and one.

  88. When a man gets sixty-four cents a car, it is not sixty-four cents a ton, but sixty-four cents for two tons of clean coal.

  89. If he heats forty tons, he gets four dollars.

  90. Be square with yourself and square to the man who is after your heart; put yourself mentally in the place of a wife, when a man gets serious.

  91. Theories without fact leaves man in a rudderless boat; he gets nowhere, he only drifts.

  92. The sensitive wife of the house gets stinging remarks that abide with her after the lord and master of the house has departed.

  93. In the home the family gets up plenty early enough, songs and jokes, kisses and love pats are found, the family is on time, and there is happiness all around.

  94. Through the animal food he gets the mineral from the flesh he eats, which flesh was first of all built up through the vegetables the animal ate.

  95. When a woman gets angry, she quarrels with her lover, her husband or her children.

  96. It is sit, sit, sit until he gets a big abdomen, a puffy skin and a bad liver.

  97. The millionaire thinks, dreams and gets dollars and that is all.

  98. There is no one to nag him or bother him; it gets to be his "hang-out," and soon he drifts into a crowd that knows the trail to the red light district.

  99. I believe I hear more birds, I believe I get more pleasure out of life and living than the man who gets angry and loves revenge.

  100. The other, the one per cent, seeks mental pleasures, and this little group is the one that gets the real, lasting, satisfying and improving pleasures.

  101. Through the vegetable he gets the mineral necessary for his body building.

  102. If he doesn't get this comeraderie at home he gets it "round the corner.

  103. Let us go on for a few more years knitting our business and industrial relations into those of the white man, till a black man gets a mortgage on a white man's house that he can foreclose at will.

  104. It is easy to understand why the negro rarely gets ahead in the world.


  105. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gets back; gets dark