How to Use get/have a handle on in a Sentence

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• The best way to get a handle on this divine welter is to take a walking tour.
  — David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Nedeljkovic made 28 saves but couldn’t get a handle on Pelech's winner.
  — Will Graves, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
• Most models have a handle on the top and rubber feet at the bottom to ensure a firm grip.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
• By then, the FBI was starting to get a handle on the extent of the problem — if not exactly what to do about it.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• The feeling that the Stars have a handle on things took a bad spill Sunday night when Heiskanen went down for far, far too long.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
• How to get a handle on your finances after being let go from your job.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• But even the most tech-savvy person might struggle to get a handle on every detail.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
• Towns around the state had tried various ways to get a handle on the issue, leading to a patchwork of efforts.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• Public health officials are still trying to get a handle on the drug, as well as how best to respond to it.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• It’s been a difficult condition to get a handle on, or treat.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
• At the end of the series, so many of the other characters seem to have a handle on their own equations and are moving forward with their lives.
  — Vulture, 2 June 2023
• School districts are trying to get a handle on the technology.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• The leak will only up the stakes for Fulton County to get a handle on a cyberattack that has hobbled services for weeks.
  — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• In parts of Portland, those ambitions have stalled as leaders try to get a handle on the mounting homeless crisis.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• Also last month, a co-founder of Salt & Straw ice cream shops said the company would move its Southeast Portland headquarters out of state if the city didn’t get a handle on crime.
  — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
• The company has been scrambling to raise cash to get a handle on liabilities that totaled about $187 billion at the end of June.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• The good news is that the tide is turning and both businesses and investors are starting to get a handle on how to better support the recycling value chain.
  — Rob Kaplan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The best way to get a handle on this is to have a qualified professional do an energy audit.
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2022
• Before anyone in the media or the music business could get a handle on it, a star was born out of left field — in his field, to be exact, in the town of North Dinwiddie, Virginia.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• But now, there’s a new term—and generation—to get a handle on: The honey badger generation.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 26 Jan. 2024
• Delta culled its schedule in July and into August and is planning to hold off on additional growth for the rest of the year in an effort to get a handle on its problems.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 13 July 2022
• Fed officials are now scrambling to get a handle on inflation.
  — Bryan Cutsinger, National Review, 8 Apr. 2022
• This initial design is used to create the model, understand the data and get a handle on performance.
  — Steven Gustafson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Phoenix never seems to get a handle on a role that until the climax requires little of him other than to act as sounding board to Gibson’s anxieties and anger.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• Some schools are also trying to get a handle on the sudden influx of e-bikes on and around campus, including some requiring a permit to ride one to school.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• The homelessness crisis in Oakland has exploded over the past decade — an intractable problem in the wider region that city leaders have struggled to get a handle on.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• Amazon hasn’t managed to get a handle on in-person retail despite buying the upscale, popular Whole Foods chain back in 2017.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
• Two eastbound lanes on Jamacha Road were closed while firefighters worked to get a handle on the blaze, which did not threaten any structures, authorities said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• Without routine testing for xylazine, the researchers say, it’s proven difficult to get a handle on how significant the trend might be.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 15 Mar. 2022
• The city’s plan comes as Mahan is pushing a stricter response to encampments as public frustration has grown over the city’s struggle to get a handle on homelessness.
  — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024