VERB
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pass or move in front of
Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race -
escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
She gets away with murder!
I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities -
succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
We got by on just a gallon of gas
How To Use get by In A Sentence
- She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
- Overspent its athletic budget by $ 3. 1 million in the past five years.
- The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
- I have no formal clothes for the occasion. Perhaps I can get by in a dark suit?
- I have no problem with giving a kid a sandwich for lunch if it helps his parents get by while they are down and out.
- If you allow insurance companies to get by unchallenged from a public plan, they will play nice until health care isn't the hot button issue any more. Emanuel faces liberal pressure over 'trigger' comments
- One died presumably to satisfy some ideological or religious prompting or to get revenge, and the other while trying, somehow, simply to get by.
- Colon was expected to mix in off-speed pitches, but he has been trying to get by with average heat.
- He concluded the value of refitting the boats, at a total cost of $46.2 million, was below what Pricewaterhouse-Coopers then estimated the ferry corporation could get by selling them.
- When I say get by, I'm still bleary-eyed and coffee-dependent in the morning.