How To Use Get the better of In A Sentence
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It made them think that bounders and attitudinizers could never get the better of them.
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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.
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Though her heart was set aflutter, Katren didn't let her excitement get the better of her.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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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
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Indeed, temptation did get the better of one his close childhood friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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But after a few days, boredom, hunger pangs and cravings get the better of you.
The Sun
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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
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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
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I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times.
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At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov.
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So you can just allow your male/animal instincts to get the better of you and kill your girlfriend/wife?
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It requires strengthening the social fabric of neighborhoods, communities and social movements so that we have more occasions to talk to one another as citizens because if we don't -- in the absence of meaningful democratic citizenship, the illusion of consumerism is likely to get the better of us.
Steven Crandell: Annenberg's Alchemy
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My youthful exuberance can get the better of me although, hopefully, not to the extent of hitting my stumps down or anything like that!
The Sun
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The temptation to let the heady ecstasy of power get the better of you is self-evident.
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At this present their go-between and confidante is a slave-girl who hath till now kept their counsel, but I fear lest haply anxiety get the better of her and she discover their secret to some one and the matter, being bruited abroad, might bring me to great grief and prove the cause of my ruin; for I have no excuse to offer my accusers.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But with a moderate degree of the favour which I have always had, my time my own, and my mind unplagued about other things, I may boldly promise myself soon to get the better of this blow.
Selected English Letters
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Or will his illness finally get the better of him?
Times, Sunday Times
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This lack of a proper, irreverent perspective doesn't have to get the better of you, though.
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After jabbing him early on, Rigby let his warrior instincts get the better of him and he ended up slugging it out in a fight which had the Wythenshawe Forum crowd on its feet.
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But after a few days, boredom, hunger pangs and cravings get the better of you.
The Sun
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As December passed by, and the term drew to a close, Patty's impatience began almost to get the better of her.
The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life
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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
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He lacks strategy and good judgment, and his quick temper and impetuosity too often get the better of him.
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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
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She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.
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But there are times when he seems unable to: when his emotional reactions get the better of him, and suffuse his public rhetoric on foreign affairs and infuse his specific foreign policies.
Brent E. Sasley: The Passions of Erdoğan
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The temptation to let the heady ecstasy of power get the better of you is self-evident.
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You get the better of that fellow.
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‘I'll play you for it,’ Danny told him, allowing her anger and rioting emotions to get the better of her.
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Although I'd been toying with switching to insurance which covers all eventualities, I foolishly let sentiment get the better of me and stayed with him.
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The residents, who are mostly elderly, are determined not to let the yobs get the better of them.
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For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him, proud that in a cause of compassion and honour he had been able to get the better of himself.
Chapter LII
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The pair of boys fell to the ground, wrestling drunkenly, trying to get the better of the other.
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But after a few days, boredom, hunger pangs and cravings get the better of you.
The Sun
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The others again addressed themselves to conversing and carousing; and, when the wine get the better of them, the eldest lady who ruled the house rose and making obeisance to them took the cateress by the hand, and said, “Rise, O my sister and let us do what is our devoir.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Despite such digital jiggery-pokery, Deupree and Willits don't let their software get the better of them.
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He landed himself in hot water with the club's fans last summer during a pre-season tour when he let his frustration get the better of him and made a gesture towards the crowd.
