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get across

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  1. communicate successfully
    I couldn't get across the message
    He put over the idea very well
  2. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    she was penetrated with sorrow
    It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  3. travel across or pass over
    The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

How To Use get across In A Sentence

  • Experts say more consumers are spreading their food budget across different stores rather than relying on a weekly shop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another point that the "Pro-life" lobby try to get across is that they believe no one dies painfully now, because of hospices and modern drugs, so euthanasia is not needed.
  • To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
  • I want to get across to people it is their homes that will depreciate in value if these masts go up and so it is in their interest to get involved.
  • Mothers were having to use the steps because a communal path between the front of houses in Windermere Road and gardens was so overgrown with weeds the prams could not get across.
  • i live in nova Scotia and well it would be pretty hard for me to get across Canada .. Twilight Lexicon » Canadian Twilight Convention
  • Anyone who has rushed to get across a Hong Kong street in front of oncoming traffic knows that moving on two feet can be dangerous here.
  • This is the message that we want to get across to the public.
  • It's so much safer to get across the road at the traffic lights.
  • It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
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