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Example sentences for "got the"

  • I got the gun, and the Maxim-silencer thing, off a fence in Boston," he explained.

  • We ain't got the sabe, or the knack, or something or other.

  • He might a-owned you, just because he's got the price.

  • An' the only answer I know is that we ain't got the sabe.

  • Of course, I'd made a fine showin' for a licked man, but he got the decision, which was right.

  • Some think I've got the ell a little mite too yaller.

  • You've made me do the work of a man, and, thank God, I've got the muscle of one.

  • Now sit down in that chair and hear what I've got to say while I've got the strength to say it.

  • Waitstill's got the voice, but she lacks the trainin'.

  • Finally he got the chief to see as it wasn't Christian to hold back that there medicine from the world no longer, and the chief, his heart was softened, and he says to go.

  • He knowed he would never find Slim's mark, he said, but he kept a-looking, and he guessed that was the way he got the name of Looney.

  • She asts me a lot of questions, and I had to lie to her a good deal, but I got the grub.

  • So I got the directors to permit me to hire a man to run the station.

  • When I got the job, the cable across the Ohio River at Covington, connecting with the line to Louisville, had a variable leak in it, which caused the strength of the signalling current to make violent fluctuations.

  • I guess it was satisfactory; we got the money, which was the main point to us.

  • He came on, got the battery to Liverpool, set up and ready, just two hours before the test commenced.

  • Good Injun went after it with a gun, and I guess they mixed, all right, and he got the worst of it.

  • He seems all right, and I don't know why he shouldn't be just what he seems; he's got the name of being a good lawyer.

  • He got the chance to admire a very stiff pair of shoulders and a neck to match for his answer.

  • But I guess he is; anyway, Baumberger seems to take it for granted he's got the case.

  • I've got the voice, and that's what deceived us all.

  • And I've got the money, and everything's very comfortable with me.

  • And Hanging Rock was most gracious to them whenever it got the chance.

  • She's got the making of something in her.

  • That Broadway hit of mine has preceded me here, and we've got the town, I suspect, in advance.

  • He was the best stage-manager we ever had before he got the notion of managing for himself--and ruining himself.

  • Besides, you haven't got the acquaintance in high society that Nance Olden can boast.

  • He's got the look of a speedy little animal--but shucks!

  • I've spent as much as twenty-five dollars on a circus, before now, and felt that I got the worth of my money, too.

  • You've got the music in your head and your fingers and your toes, and that's as your mother wished that you should have.

  • Very meekly, his face blank, Bud reached into his pocket and got the money.

  • Well; I got the better of it, and went on sorting, and went on singing to myself.

  • I got the place, and no thanks to you for it, nor yet none to Lawyer Lightwood,' gruffly answered Riderhood.

  • The mean man had, of course, got the better of the generous man.

  • Not wishing him to know what I'm a-going to say to you, I got the start of him early and walked up.

  • For, sailors to be got the better of, were essential to Miss Pleasant's Eden.

  • Well," said the dentist, "we got the laugh on those cowboys.

  • I don' know where he got the idea; he must be crazy.

  • I wonder," she said to herself, "I wonder where he got the money to buy his whiskey.

  • Answer me that, McTeague, who's got the money?

  • An' I grabbed his gun an' got the drop on him.

  • We got the stock--an' my share, eighteen hundred head, was rustled off.

  • I got the country an' the railroad hollerin' for nothin'.

  • We've got the pleasure of memory,' said she.

  • Never mind,' said Anthea, 'we've got the Phoenix.

  • He pranced off when he'd got the cat-bags off his face--thought we'd bolted.

  • Can't you put us on to something genuine in that line--something that's got the colour, you know?

  • I slid down the tree, got the note, slipped along the fence till I struck the woods, and was back at the cave in another half an hour.

  • They sent me after him, and I've got the papers.

  • That was his scheme; and that's how we got the capital to go into business together.

  • I do not drag it in the dust,' says I, 'because they haven't got the dust.

  • I might turn in a story about a sea serpent wiggling up Broadway, but I haven't got the nerve to try 'em with a pipe like this.

  • He is readily vocalized by tobacco; so, with the aid of two thick and easy-burning brevas, I got the story of his latest Autolycan adventure.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "got 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:
    blood from; braw gallant; disinterested benevolence; eyed maid; farm house; finding themselves; got any; got back; got him; got home; got out; got the; half mile; higher standard; horizontal lines; opera comique; private persons; revolt against; scarcely likely; second year; stem short; thought more; vigorous growth; what relates; when cooked; you won