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get away

VERB
  1. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
    She gets away with murder!
    I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
  2. run away from confinement
    The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
  3. remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
    The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer
    We escaped to our summer house for a few days

How To Use get away In A Sentence

  • It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that. The Sun
  • How can your competitor get away with not adding that tax and ace you out of yet another job?
  • After appearing to get away to near perfect starts Hutchinson and Campbell were called OCS and had to make an agonising return to restart. ISAF News
  • Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
  • It is hard nowadays to get away with something so elemental. Times, Sunday Times
  • He claimed she had told him:'The local police are corrupt and if you pay them you can get away with anything. The Sun
  • How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense?
  • How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
  • Let's get away for the weekend. A change of scene will do you good.
  • As an electioneerer, I can get away with any of 'em. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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