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
Flour, bacon, beans, blankets, cooking-stove, ropes, odds and ends, everything they could get hands on, flew overboard.
From The Faith of Men by London, Jack
