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take revenge or even out a score
I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even -
get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
I finally settled with my old enemy -
recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company
He got back his son from the kidnappers
How To Use get back In A Sentence
- I will like you to get back with your asking price for each artworks excluding the shipping expense because the artworks will be shipped with my other house items by the cartage company handling the shipment of our house items. September 2008
- It's time to get back to basics, so hit the deck and channel your inner grizzly bear. The Sun
- They have already climbed the ladder once and want to get back on it. Times, Sunday Times
- D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
- But enough of this - even though I'm sitting here with a jury-rigged computer I'm about to get back into the swing of things.
- Australia's shipping lines are lifting prices to get back in the black.
- Last June, the 35-year-old had to crawl, slide and drag himself down the mountain for 10 hours to get back to base camp.
- As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools. CHAPTER XXXVII
- How do we get back the passion that poor immigrant children and newly freed slaves once had for education?
- I groaned, realising that although I was dog-tired, I couldn't get back to sleep.