get at

Example Sentences

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The work he gets at the center can bring in another $400 a month, just enough to get by.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’m going to wait and see what I’ve got at the end of the week,” I told them.

From Literature

In all of this, he’s getting at something powerful but hard to quantify that we all perhaps have felt, if only briefly, at one time or another.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I don’t go anywhere really where they can get at me,” she told Norton.

From Salon

On this evidence, even moreso against these opponents, this flawed City showed they can be got at and undermined in a manner that does not give confidence they will overhaul Arsenal.

From BBC