get through

VERB
  1. spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
  2. be in or establish communication with
    Our advertisements reach millions
    He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
  3. succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
    We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
  4. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    she was penetrated with sorrow
    It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  5. finish a task completely
    I finally got through this homework assignment
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How To Use get through In A Sentence

  • Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame. Springhaven
  • Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Remember that if you get through yesterday, you'll get through today.
  • As a person, though, she is very knowing, which is why she's trying to get through the whole thing with a minimum amount of fuss.
  • Even if the phone was answered, the client might not get through to the person he wanted.
  • We would have still needed a minor miracle to get through. The Sun
  • The news finally get through to us.
  • But limited sight seemed in no way to impede his ability to get through the business; indeed it didn't impede his ability to cut to the nub of the matter at issue.
  • But she is determined to get through it and sees the case as a hangover from her past. The Sun
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