git
Example Sentences
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“We’re talking serious business: barbed wire, machine-gun towers and a 300-pound guy with no neck and a cowboy hat saying, ‘Hey rock star, git over here, boy.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2023
To “I Feel Pretty”: I bought Twitter, don’t be bitter, I will git ’er much fitter, you’ll see I’m no quitter — there’s no leader more steadfast than me!
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2021
Think I'm gonna miss the miserable old git.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2019
“Cause if'n you do, or if’n you have a mind to after you git over bein’ so mad at him, why, we could git this’n annulled.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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