get hands on
Example Sentences
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Students would get hands on experience in the Stillaguamish and Snohomish watersheds.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Slade, Smith and Steward all get hands on the ball and England make some powerful carries.
From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2022
For a wild animal, that means getting informative photographs because you can’t get hands on them.
From The Verge • May 14, 2021
“We’re buying everything we can get hands on, but none are available. Shortages are extending past PPE to actual physical machinery.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2020
The fishers swarmed round us, active as fish in their native element, and strove mightily to get hands on the boat and slit the hides which covered it with their eager fingers.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
