How To Use Get across In A Sentence
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Experts say more consumers are spreading their food budget across different stores rather than relying on a weekly shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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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.
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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.
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i live in nova Scotia and well it would be pretty hard for me to get across Canada ..
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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.
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This is the message that we want to get across to the public.
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It's so much safer to get across the road at the traffic lights.
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It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
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At the end of it all are words, pure and simple - and how you phrase those words and get across what you're saying is the most important thing.
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We use the flat-bottomed airboat to get across the boom and close to the oiled marshes.
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He can't get across to meet you himself, account of debriefing the wing staff.
RIOT
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Early-reading proponents say it would be more accurate to describe this practice as "phonics writing," to get across the message that it's an exercise in phonemics (the way letters represent sounds) rather than true spelling.
The Right Way To Read
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The water's only ankle/knee/waist-deep, so we'll be able to get across the river easily.
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It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
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Was it the quants who failed to imagine how big price distortions could get across all markets when liquidity evaporates?
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She often has only a few moments of screentime to get across what phase Lureen is in, but as we follow her from a wild and flirty girl to a flinty woman trapped in a loveless marriage we feel a complete and three dimensional character.
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The bridge was destroyed, so we couldn't get across.
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The first river is shallow, but the next is a bit hairy and we link arms to get across.
The Sun
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The lights changed to red before I could get across.
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The first river is shallow, but the next is a bit hairy and we link arms to get across.
The Sun
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So to get across the road, we had to crawl under the horse 's belly or under their neck.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Let’s take a small look at one idea that this Jesus fellow wanted to get across – this short passage is from The Message version of the Bible, which has deliberately been paraphrased from the original Greek so as to (hopefully) speak in a contemporary vernacular much as it would have for readers in the first century.
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If the message you want to get across is one of sweetness and innocence, choose a pretty dress with a high neckline and a knee length hem.
Times, Sunday Times
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The heads are disproportionately big, the hands claw-like, the limbs flaccid or cricked and skewed in defiance of anatomy to get across further expression or character.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice
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The lights changed to red before I could get across.
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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Two bridges connect the town to the other side. The residents have only minutes to get across those bridges to escape potential lava flows, lahars, and mudslides.
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That's a toughie to get across with such limited resources.
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The lights changed to red before I could get across.
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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The busboy will be working long hours until he earns back the $2000 it cost in coyote fees to get across the border.
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The bridge was destroyed, so we couldn't get across.
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The only one with a regular revenue stream seemed to be Charon's ferry service, no shortage of dead people willing to pay the required obol to get across.
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Well, to sum up, what is the message that you are trying to get across?
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Your thesis wouldn't get across if you used too many technical terms in it.
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The bridge was destroyed, so we couldn't get across.
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He knew his oppo 's daughter, and, secretly, he'd have given his left arm to get across it.
THE SCAR
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Anyhoo, what I'm trying to get across is that this mag is harder to get hold of than a jellied eel.
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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Another senior sergeant added, ‘We just needed to get across the berm sooner than we did.’
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That’s the first point I want to get across: that if the distances involved in interplanetary travel are enormous, and the travel times fit to rival the first Australian settlers, then the distances and times involved in interstellar travel are mind-numbing.
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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. Warren Buffett
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It’s an almost impossible effect to get across in English (the effect seems to me something like Owen’s pararhyme, as one thing transforms into another by the shift of a vowel – with the difference that in modern Greek u, ei, oi, i, and e all actually sound the same), though I do wish more translators would at least try to get across some of his formal elements.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
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The lights changed to red before I could get across.
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It won't be easy, but we'll get across the river somehow.
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I've been trying to get across that they're not the immortal people we think they are.
The Sun
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He wanted something heightened, very stylized, and a sense of twisted kink to get across his message.
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Hard work and mastery of the basics is the message to get across; there are five years ahead and lots of things can change in that time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last year, 409 immigrants died trying to get across - a sevenfold increase since 1995.
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Did your speech get across to the crowd?
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I've been trying to get across that they're not the immortal people we think they are.
The Sun
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There's a sheer cliff not far from that hut and a Tyrolean, using carabiner and prusik, is needed to get across to a rock, at the foot of which is the burrow of the rare lesser hairless meerkat.
[my ideal holiday] by walter mitty esq.
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Because, honestly, the real world we live in and which has preceded us historically (and prehistorically as far as that goes) is far more complex than what we can get across on the page or "invent.
"An Accurate Understanding": Talking About Social Structures in Worldbuilding
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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The lights changed to red before I could get across.
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I think that's a really important message that we need to get across to people, because whenever you say energy conservation, they immediately think turning off their heaters and not being warm and stuff.
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Maybe the bisection would leave a piece of his land isolated and far from any overpass, and how, the farmer wanted to know, was he supposed to get across that highway with a tractor?
Interstate 69
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She made a running dive to get across the crevasse.
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I couldn't get across the message
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The water's only ankle/knee/waist-deep, so we'll be able to get across the river easily.
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The message I want to get across is that what seems like a small amount of money over here can make a huge difference over there.
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Sweeping shots and crazy angles seem to add to the tense, built-up vibe the movie is trying to get across.
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He said lighting could not be installed at Bilbrough Top without having to put them all the way to Tadcaster, because it was such a bendy road, and the solution to the problems was junction improvements, allowing people to get across safely.
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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. Warren Buffett
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Sunday: I opened last week with Percy B. Shelley's Ozymandias, a poem about Louis B. Mayer, to try and get across the point that Rachel's, or Boobiac's, megalomaniacal power-crazedness last week was short-sighted, as her queendom would not endure.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac.
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To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
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Such reactions either blind them to what you're trying to get across, or they go away so worried that they don't function effectively for days.
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Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
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Emoticons and other symbols will add to the context you are trying to get across.
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Your thesis wouldn't get across if you used too many technical terms in it.
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So to get across the road, we had to crawl under the horse 's belly or under their neck.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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He certainly wishes to get across the message that any side-effects problems hopefully are not unsurmountable.
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Rondow said he tried reasoning with the officers, telling them he would miss the start of his course if he couldn't get across the border - to no avail.
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To be honest, it's usually too preachy, straining to get across a point, like using a chainsaw to cut a string on your jacket.
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Take care not to get across the director,he could have you dismissed.
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One of the key messages we try to get across to our readers is the importance of managing debts.