How to Use get around to (something) in a Sentence

get around to (something)

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• Elena got one dose but didn’t get around to the second.
  — Cindy Carcamostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
• The sites are largely shaded and place campers close to the Blue Ridge Parkway, the best way to quickly get around to the area’s many draws.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 12 July 2021
• The Court might not get around to hearing this case until early next term.
  — Evan Gerstmann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Vivian Nguyn is a Huntsville resident who prefers to get around to other parts of the city on her bike.
  — al, 6 Dec. 2022
• And maybe Beach House will get around to that eventually.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
• And, for whatever reason, didn’t get around to sending the ring sooner.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• There’s a bit of delay on the guitar and a muffled heartbeat drum underneath the whole thing, and Martyn doesn’t get around to singing for a few minutes.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Come 2022, Apple might finally, get around to including a touch screen as well as the faster refresh rate.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• The only way to get around to the important things is: Instead of trying to eradicate all the other stuff, [make progress] on the important stuff first.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2021
• The timeline of the actual incident is compressed from years to months — the quicker to get around to the court case that ensues when Kempton is arrested.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• As the subject of the meeting was Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, Waters did eventually get around to that as well.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
• Those who want to portray Barr as a hatchet man, therefore, rarely get around to noticing that Trump’s principal nemeses emerged unscathed from the AG’s tenure.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 July 2021
• There was no telling when a worker assigned to checking documents would get around to this application.
  — Hannah Dreier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
• Put together too long of a list, though, and, because of time or distance or some other excuse, you may get discouraged and never get around to doing it all.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2021
• Magic Mike's Last Dance does get around to an entirely new cast of performers, shifting Tatum to more of an artistic director.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• The Trump administration had hoped to eliminate the program as part of its broader immigration crackdown but did not get around to it.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
• China’s state-run media revealed that the country’s space agency plans to run its post-landing checks and may finally get around to sending photos back to Earth sometime around the end of May, which is still nearly two weeks away.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 18 May 2021
• Dominik does get around to showing her face, which is beaming as the camera points up toward Marilyn in outward supplication.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Presumably, the School Department will make a formal announcement late today, and at some point, get around to letting the affected families know.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• But that does not precisely describe a book whose author does not get around to really delving into the details of his own upbringing until more than three hundred pages have elapsed.
  — Larry Rohter, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2021
• Fox News will eventually get around to coverage on its signature channel — at 8 p.m.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2022
• This weird story was the system working as planned, sort of: a wrongdoer cooperating with the investigation and quitting before the Senate had to get around to kicking him out.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 June 2021
• Perhaps realizing that most people won’t buy that this is infrastructure spending, the White House doesn’t get around to discussing this proposal until more than halfway through its lengthy fact sheet.
  — Jeffrey H. Anderson, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• And eventually, Ends has to get around to the overdue showdown that passes for its hook: the allegedly final battle between the ultimate Final Girl and the unfeeling hulk that nearly butchered her 40 years earlier.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 13 Oct. 2022
• On the contrary, developers over the past few days unearthed a plethora of awesome iOS 15 features that Apple simply didn’t get around to mentioning during its keynote presentation last week.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 14 June 2021
• Big manufacturers are raising prices by thousands of dollars and might never get around to making electric vehicles that are widely affordable in India and Africa.
  — Jack Ewing Atul Loke, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• Every city has its figurative Statue of Liberty—those landmarks visited by plenty of tourists, but that locals seldom (if ever) get around to experiencing themselves.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024