get across
Example Sentences
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“You try to get across it’s not about where you get drafted,” Snead said Thursday night.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
"So now we can allow the nerves to get across the gap."
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
“It wasn’t like having another actor who had another agenda or actions or a perspective that they wanted to get across in the scene,” Foy says.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
“It could actually be somewhat helpful, because they’re trying to get across ‘the bar is higher’ without saying, ‘We’re not going to do something that we might very well wind up wanting to do.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
“There’s no more danger here than anywhere else. Kehaar’s going to show us where to get across, isn’t he? The thing to do is to get on with it before it gets dark.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
