Use gets in a sentence
Sentences starting with gets
- Gets a man nominated to State and county conventions that can't go, and goes himself with a bunch of credentials. [9]
Sentences ending with gets
- As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
- You shall see with your own eyes what treatment it gets. [6]
- At first he only got the usual birth-bounty; but now that he has got so that he can dance, there is simply no telling what wages he gets. [5]
- It be soort o' thing a man gets. [11]
- And now, when all on a sudden at night you hear the trees and leaves and the sleepy birds and crickets stir, it is the old King hunting--for the fox he never gets. [11]
Short sentences using gets
- Which end gets up first? [5]
- He gets the salary. [5]
- Who gets his money? [11]
- It gets thicker and thicker. [5]
- You gets out. [9]
Sentences containing gets two or more times
- If he asks questions he gets into trouble, and if he doesn't ask them he gets old before his time. [11]
- When it gets public, why, some one gets blamed. [11]
- He gets into prison every now and then for practising without a diploma, but his business is as brisk as ever when he gets out, for his work is unquestionably successful and keeps his reputation high. [5]
- Besides, as a man gets older he likes the season of Ramadan less, for he must fast from sunrise to sunset, though his work goes on; and, with broken sleep, having his meals at night, it is ten to one but he gets irritable. [11]
- Man likes to lie abed late there he gets up once or twice in the night to perform some religious office, and gets up finally for the day at two in the morning. [5]
- The rat gets into a trap; gets out with trouble; infers that cheese in traps lacks value, and meddles with that trap no more. [5]
- It gets fearfully hot here in the summer, so we spend our summers on top of a hill 6 or 700 feet high, about two or three miles from here--it never gets hot up there. [5]
- If you love a woman, if she gets hold of you, gets into your blood, loves you so that the touch of her fingers sets your pulses going pom-pom, you don't care a sou whether she is good or not. [11]
More example sentences with the word gets in them
- And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
- Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
- Now up gets your General Sherman in the middle of the night,--midnight,--and marches up and down between the counters, and waves his arms. [9]
- The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
- To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
- But I guess you and I will have some more talk after a while,--after Theodore Watling gets to be United States Senator. [9]
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
- One does the work and another gets paid--that's the way here. [11]
- And that queer woman, the Deacon's mother,--there 's where she gets that hystericky look. [6]
- Now the young woman of today should not be deceived into the notion of a preferable Realistic development because the novelist of today gets her to sit to him as his model. [4]
- It's always sunrise with that man, and fine and blazing, at that--never gets noon; though--leaves off and rises again. [5]
- In short, I wish we could gain time, and see how she gets on. [14]
- These hard-working veterans will not let one get rid of them until he drops in his harness, and so gets rid of them and his life together. [6]
- He fears he will die of joy, before he gets among them. [12]
- When she gets wicked or mad enough to hate, either through jealousy or because she cannot love where she would, she is merciless. [11]
- I don't see why a changeable man shouldn't get as much enjoyment out of his changes, and transformations and transfigurations as a steadfast man gets out of standing still and pegging at the same old monotonous thing all the time. [5]
- One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. [5]
- The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
- If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
- Look here, Beaton, when your natural-gas man gets to the picture-buying stage in his development, just remember your old friends, will you? [8]
- How he lives, when he once gets within it, I can only guess. [6]
- He remembers it when he gets older. [11]
- He gets monotonous, when he doesn't get complicated. [8]
- I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
- He always gets what he starts out for. [9]
- If she gets well, she will be--" She made a motion to her eyes. [11]
- The patient gets well by the use of arnica in a little more than a month longer, and this extraordinary fact is published in the French "Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine. [3]
- When he gets well and plump, I know he will forgive me if I confess that I could not help smiling in the midst of my sympathy for him. [6]
- One has to wait, and wait, even if the heart grows harder, and one gets hopeless. [11]
- The mountains are very high and steep about Carson, Eagle and Washoe Valleys--very high and very steep, and so when the snow gets to melting off fast in the Spring and the warm surface-earth begins to moisten and soften, the disastrous land-slides commence. [5]
- But if Austen Vane ever gets started, there'll be trouble. [9]
- But none of us gets the real thing. [9]
- If one gets up, the other's got to. [5]
- Instead of giving up, he hangs on, and gets his shins bruised against every obstruction that comes in the way. [5]
- Well, I gets up, a-wondering, and goes down stairs--nobody around; everything as still as a mouse. [5]
- The postilion gets up to his place. [4]
- Visitors always go up there to look down into the church because one gets the best idea of some of the heights and distances from that point. [5]
- These are not unpleasant subjects; they are not uninteresting subjects; they are even exciting subjects --until one of these massive scientists gets hold of them. [5]
- Everything gets a turn of its own at the Front. [11]
- I suppose they'll try to converge upon him before he gets to Pascal River. [11]
- He has not translated it at all; he has simply mixed it all up; it is no more like the jumping Frog when he gets through with it than I am like a meridian of longitude. [5]
- He sails up to you bearing your own flag, and when he gets aboard he shows the skull and cross-bones. [4]
- If one begins to watch the swirling flakes and crystals, he soon gets an impression of infinity of resources that he can have from nothing else so powerfully, except it be from Adirondack gnats. [4]
- He can take to the philosophic meerschaum, and nicotine himself at brief intervals into a kind of buzzing and blurry insensibility, until he begins to "color" at last like the bowl of his own pipe, and even his mind gets the tobacco flavor. [6]
- He clings piteously to the one little shred that is left of his departed distinction--the "privilege of the floor"; and works it hard and gets what he can out of it. [5]
- I'm only fit to run the commissariat, and see that he gets enough to eat, and has a safe camel, and so on. [11]
- The traveler gets to like this freedom and primitive luxury. [4]
- One only has to leave home to learn how to write an interesting letter to an absent friend when he gets back. [5]
- You want her to kiss you on the high cheek-bone, but if you go to play the cat-o'-nine- tails round her, the high cheek-bone gets froze. [11]
- I want you to have him come back and write for the book when he gets well. [8]
- It'd be good to fight it now before it gets going. [11]
- All Perry has to do is to sit back and take in receipts from the Boyne Street car line, and Tom is content if he gets a few commissions every week. [9]
- One gets tired to death of the old, old rhymes, such as you see in that copy of verses,--which I don't mean to abuse, or to praise either. [6]
- Country-life is apt to be dull; but when it once gets going, it beats the city hollow, because it gives its whole mind to what it is about. [6]
- They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly. [2]
- Rut one gets tired of the strings of questions sent him, to which he is expected to return an answer, plucked, ripe or unripe, from his private tree of knowledge. [6]
- I knows a tide, an' it's a good tide, The tide that gets you quick to anchors down. [11]
- But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. [5]
- I have hired three men to give him a cool bath in the Euphrates, before he gets back to Rhagae. [10]
- It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. [5]
- Everybody uses it, though, and everybody gets comfort out of it. [5]
- Did you ever think what the life of the sailor is, that swings at the top of a mast with the frost freezin' his very soul, and because he's slow, owin' to the cold, gets twenty lashes for not bein' quicker? [11]
- We literary fellows think that arm of the service gets too much of the glory nowadays. [8]
- The very first thing one feels like doing when he gets into camp, all burning up and dusty, is to hunt up a bath. [5]
- Yes, whatever old thing Mrs. Eddy touches gets something new by the contact--something not thought of before by any one--something original, all her own, and copyrightable. [5]
- What a stupid thing a note-book gets to be at sea, any way. [5]
- The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
- It gets hot there, but if you go down to Fort Yuma you will find it hotter. [5]
- What a cyclone there is going to be to-morrow when this piece of paper gets to work!... [5]
- Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks--a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hy'roglyphics. [5]
- For all that, their operations may be as essential as the other, in which the will-power sometimes gets into a deadlock, and sometimes telegraphs the most eccentric and incomprehensible orders. [4]
- It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person's neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something. [5]
- If this is the way you fellows get scared because a sham reformer gets up and hollers against the road, then I want to serve notice on you that I'm not made of that kind of stuff. [9]
- The Government gets the suppressed edition for nothing. [5]
- Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep, and the winds come so finely sifted that they are as soft as swan's down. [6]
- From the coast the stuff comes up to Dublin without a check, and, as he's a special favourite, he gets the best to be had in la belle France. [11]
- Commonly, the cause, the sect, the party, the trade, the delusion, the idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its advocate, only when some individual thinks he can see a pecuniary return in establishing it. [4]
- Now it was the salt-cellar, the plate, and the bread; then it was a Duke's Daughter--a noble soul as ever lived--with a tasting-knife, as beautiful as a rose; then another lady enters who glares at me, and gets to her knees as does the other. [11]
- So that is the reputation one gets during twenty years of life in this world. [4]
- But just in the proportion that she gets them, and because she has them, will be the need of higher education. [4]
- Walking ahead of the procession, which gets slowly down the rugged path, I lose sight of my companions, and have the solitude, the sun on the rocks, the glistening sea, all to myself. [4]
- Wherever this is the practice, medicine is sure to become a trade, and the people learn to expect drugging, and to consider it necessary, because drugs are so universally given to the patients of the man who gets his living by them. [6]
- I have had the portraits framed for a long time, waiting till my aunt gets everything ready for hanging them up in the parlor. [5]
- When my friend the politician gets too far into the personal details of the quorum pars magna fui, I find myself all at once exclaiming in mental articulation, Popgun! [6]
- First it knocks the pluck out of him and drags his pride in the dirt; worry does the rest, and his mind gets shaky. [5]
- When one of the opinions expressed is fulfilled, that opinion gets connected with the event as a command preceding it. [2]
- I'm afraid of the old fella, for his place is not in the pen wid that young thing, an' he'll break her heart, or kill her, if he gets to know the truth. [11]
- That you appoint the governors and those that go to the Legislature, and that--Hilary Vane gets them elected. [9]
- He had tasted the blood of his own rhymes; and when a poet gets as far as that, it is like wringing the bag of exhilarating gas from the lips of a fellow sucking at it, to drag his piece away from him. [6]
- Another conference at the back of the stage, out of which emerges State Senator Nat Billings and gets the ear of General Doby. [9]
- He's a man that'll make things hum, if he gets in. [11]
- He felicitates himself that, when he gets it once planted, he will have a season of rest and of enjoyment in the sprouting and growing of his seeds. [4]
- I was told that when a four-gun prince gets a gun added, he is pretty troublesome for a while, till the novelty wears off, for he likes the music, and keeps hunting up pretexts to get himself saluted. [5]
- He has noticed that usually when a person gets comfortably established in a summer cottage he wants to rent it. [4]
- It is said that under a general law, whenever a R. R. Co. gets tired of its debts, it may transfer fraudulently to get rid of them. [7]
- Don't you know that nothing is safe where one of those fellows gets in with his note-book and pencil? [6]
- The prince propagates that kind of things in the modern times, and gets knighthood and guns for it. [5]
- He gets so that he could not by any possibility live in a soberer atmosphere. [5]
- But a thing that gets pied is dead, and for such there is no resurrection; its chance of seeing print is gone, forever and ever. [5]
- The paper gets sympathy for its fearlessness in serving the public interests. [4]
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