get next to
Example Sentences
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“Help is on the way; get next to him, please,” the operator again tells the caller.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023
Officers confiscated Ruiz's gun and forced him to wait outside the school, where he told "anybody that would get next to me" that his wife was in danger, according to his law enforcement interview.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2022
“He’d be trying to find something in his body, and she would get next to him and start imitating him,” Nicole said.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
“I get next to him, I don’t breathe,” Trump said Sunday, before adding he was “only kidding.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2020
Everyone rushes to the cook fire, pushing and shoving to get next to the little boys, who hold wooden bowls that the old man ladles some kind of porridge into.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
