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appear in a show, on T.V. or radio
The news won't be on tonight -
develop in a positive way
Plans are shaping up
My plants are coming along
He progressed well in school -
grow old or older
She aged gracefully
we age every day--what a depressing thought!
Young men senesce -
grow late or (of time) elapse
It is getting on midnight--let's all go to bed! -
have smooth relations
My boss and I get along very well -
get up on the back of
mount a horse - get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
How To Use get on In A Sentence
- The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- The first is to wonder why, if the government knows that it wants to impose a ban, does it not get on with it? Times, Sunday Times
- It would free us up time to get on with scrubbing ourselves with carbolic soap…
- The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
- The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book.
- Anybody can be anybody they want when they are sitting in mommies basement with nothing to do but get online and call people dumbasses. Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers
- So get on down the bierkeller, even if everyone knows the figures are next to meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
- We get only very little rain during the South West monsoon.
- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce. GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds