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be or become completely proficient or skilled in
She mastered Japanese in less than two years
How To Use get the hang In A Sentence
- An A / Fuel car is a little easier to get the hang of than a blown car.
- It took him a little while to get the hang of jumping hurdles but it all clicked when he won back at Wincanton in the spring. The Sun
- It'sa bit tricky at first till you get the hang of it.
- Once you get the hang of it, set up markers to slalom around.
- Despite his violent dislike for the school and its inhabitants he was starting to get the hang of how things worked.
- While we are bound to get the hang of such a new system soon, the nappy problems sound insoluble.
- The two swordsmen were behind him and they were starting to get the hang of his dodges.
- We had to move our hips around and do a shimmy, so it took a while for us to actually get the hang of it.
- I didn't quite get the hang of his argument.
- He didn't get the hang of making his own paints overnight, finding that cobalts and cadmiums worked best for him when ground again and again ("I try to make it as fine as I can get it, so that the maximum amount of light can travel through it, to create a stained glass effect") but that viridian became dull ("just the color green") if it were ground too much. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints