How to Use get on with (something or someone) in a Sentence

get on with (something or someone)

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• In the meantime, the newly free refugees have lives to get on with.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2022
• Most of us emerged the next year eager to get on with our lives.
  — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• These boots are also easy to get on with the handy pull tabs.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
• Send your regrets, go to the concert, and get on with your life.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
• Some people can suck it up and just get on with things.
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
• The bride passed along her measurements to Zoey and left her to get on with the dress-making process.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
• Just stash them inside the wallet like normal and get on with your day.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• But there are other reasons to get on with the Ewers era, which may be brief, at that.
  — Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
• There’s no alternative but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
  — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• Its moments are still shocking, but day to day there’s a need to just get on with business.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• Someone should give him fifty million dollars and tell him to get on with it.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• Look who’s back in town, ready to stop dawdling between pitches and get on with the business of playing at a crisp pace.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
• It has been designed so that people who like driving can get on with just that.
  — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 12 May 2024
• The actors appeared relieved when England won the stressful shoot-out and were able to get on with their show.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
• This volume is a call to get on with the practice of getting free together.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• Better to scrap the old Gremlin-cum-Spirit and get on with a proper program for the Eighties.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
• Fortunately for the fans, the two sides were eventually able to put the bad blood behind them and get on with the show.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
• So, yes, get on with the business of replacing your candidate — and the sooner the better.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Go ahead and get on with the merging, carefully and mindfully, thanks.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Now that the coronation is out of the way, Charles can get on with the business of beginning his reign in earnest, however that looks in 2023.
  — Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• However, when in doubt, carry a miniature fan in your purse, and get on with your business!
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
• But the path the conflict takes could allow some residents to more readily get on with their lives.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• In my view, the true nakba of the Arabs is their refusal to accept peaceful coexistence and get on with life.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2024
• Whereas, Jeremiah would have a glass of wine with the ladies quite happily and just get on with the business of mapping out the Mason-Dixon Line.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
• He’ll be comforted by his family and team members, then get on with his life as a father, son, and the 49ers’ long-term coach.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• As Suh explains, the women expressed just wanting to get on with their work, for C.K.’s misconduct not to be the only thing they’re known for.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• And so the motivation, in a sense, to get on with the agreement was, in my view, anyway, at least in part because of the need to fulfill the promise of the economy.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023
• What this really means: more travelers can skip baggage claim and just get on with their trip.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
• His distance-running career seemingly coming to a close in 2016, Reid Buchanan was ready to get on with life.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
• The Democrats’ disinclination to sharpen their critique telegraphs a desire to get on with it: to speed toward the future rather than linger in 2016.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024