get the better of

How To Use get the better of In A Sentence

• It made them think that bounders and attitudinizers could never get the better of them.
• The youngster then failed by only half a length to get the better of Blue Tomato in a hot nursery race at York's Ebor meeting.
• Though her heart was set aflutter, Katren didn't let her excitement get the better of her. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
• Instead of breathtaking touchdown passes, there were too many errors, penalties and incomplete passes as conditions seemed to get the better of the teams. Times, Sunday Times
• Indeed, temptation did get the better of one his close childhood friends. Times, Sunday Times
• But after a few days, boredom, hunger pangs and cravings get the better of you. The Sun
• It did not take that long for her curiosity to finally get the better of her. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
• A hundredth part of the cruel treatment you met with would have been enough to get the better of any man's reasoning. ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
• I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times.
• At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov.