How to Use go at it in a Sentence

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• Two of the top teams in the CCC and the state will go at it for the first time this season.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2023
• The player who chose the trump suit has the option to play with a partner or go at it alone.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• If each of your characters had to go at it in a fight, who would win?
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• To be thrown in that deep water and just try and get it up to speed and go at it in an old-school way.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2021
• Just clear your living room furniture out of the way and go at it!
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
• For several long minutes, the hawk and the deer go at it, fiercely.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• The key to habit smashing is to start small and go at it gradually.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 2 Jan. 2024
• Expect this to resurface when the Cowboys and Eagles go at it in Week 15.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Eight teams from four districts go at it until there are only two teams left.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
• Sam initially turns her down for her own good, but later the pair go at it anyway.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
• Lanning’s first-year grades (Newman and Fentress go at it).
  — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2023
• Many people have a go at it, and everyone is welcome to comment.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• One of only two games matching teams with winning records this week, the Rams and Cardinals go at it in Arizona.
  — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• The Ravens and Bengals will go at it on Sunday night with Cincinnati installed as more than a touchdown favorite.
  — cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• While there are multiple ways to react to the phase-out, one thing is clear: no brand or marketing agency can go at it alone.
  — Steve King, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Imagine being one of the other law students in this year, just watching a bimbo and an ice queen dominate class time to go at it.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2022
• Biden had a ringside seat watching his former boss Obama go at it with Netanyahu on both; and probably doesn’t want to go down that road again.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• At a certain point, the city resolved to go at it alone and negotiate without their counterparts from the county.
  — Benjamin Oreskesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The two wrestlers go at it during an early-morning match before school to determine who advances and whose season ends.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
• The other candidates in congressional contests may have to go at it alone.
  — Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2020
• After their first quarter run-in, Claxton and Embiid continued to go at it.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Famously, the man born Chancellor Bennett, now 30, would spurn the labels and go at it as an independent artist.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The candidates and parties ought to take back control over these debates, and let the candidates go at it mano a mano without some Beltway referee.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• The only remedy is a new generation to take another go at it.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• Especially throughout social media and just even among friends and families and watching strangers go at it.
  — Bryan Reesman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
• Whacking unsuspecting produce with the flat side of my knife (or a rolling pin to really go at it) is more energizing and amusing than slicing neat pieces.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• For much of the first act, the two sisters go at it, making their various cases as Viterbi links their different sisterly points of view to their alignments in their parent’s divorce.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• Human error can occur with high-impact bouts, especially when people go at it unsupervised (like solo at the gym or in a crowded group class).
  — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 15 May 2023
• Human error can occur with high-impact bouts, especially when people go at it unsupervised (like solo at the gym or in a crowded group class).
  — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 15 May 2023
• The driving challenge is designed to test skill, precision, navigational ability, observation and teamwork — and Prince Harry even had a go at it himself.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 16 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024