How To Use Get-at-able In A Sentence
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Even so simple a precaution as putting fuse boxes in get-at-able places would save a lot of nuisance, and the miserable business of putting up shelves could be greatly simplified without any extra materials or radical change in methods.
As I Please
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My dear Darwin, -- I should have replied sooner to your last kind and interesting letters, but they reached me in the midst of my packing previous to removal here, and I have only just now got my books and papers in a get-at-able state.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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The first stop surface defines a swung-out position in which the box contents are easily get-at-able through the box top, and a swung-in storage position.
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Their scrum was weak and get-at-able and their lineout was a sham.
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The Griegs live in the most unget-at-able place that you can imagine, because he does not want any one to get at him.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
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This interferes somewhat with the accessibility of the various parts, but great ingenuity has been manifested in making the parts readily get-at-able in case of necessity for repairs or alterations.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
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Roosevelt was playing hard to get, testing his own theory that Stalin was ‘get-at-able.’
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The house is not worth much; it is in an unget-at-able part of Norfolk, in the sandy district towards the sea -- the man spoke as if I knew where that was, but I don't -- and the garden and field are not fertile.
The Good Comrade
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Whether it shall be squared, or oblong with oval ends, depends upon tastes; by all means it should be get-at-able.
The Complete Home
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If the captain is not immediately get-at-able, if not in his room or on the bridge, it is then delivered to the senior officer.
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When Mr. Piperson returned, he found Pigling sitting before the fire; he had brushed up the hearth and put on the pot to boil; the meal was not get-at-able.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
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The keys of this general type have the same advantages as those of the horizontal on-edge arrangement with respect to the gathering of dust, and while perhaps the contacts are not so readily get-at-able for inspection, yet they have the advantage of being somewhat more simple, and of taking up less horizontal space on the key shelf.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
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The successful business man should keep his money where it is get-at-able, and when hard times come and the prices go away down to low water mark, then he should buy.
Dollars and Sense
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We've got a spare suitcase but it's not very get-at-able.
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As far as I can see, both sides of all the boards are get-at-able, without having to unscrew them.
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When you tell me that an estate is now of small value to its life-owner and unget-at-able for any public purposes, in consequence of a will made by a man who died twenty years ago, it appears to me that you shew me convincingly that we have not Free
Speculations from Political Economy
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Dr. Baumann says that the lake at Riabba from which the spirit Uapa rises is more holy, and that he is small, and resides in a chasm in a rock whose declivity can only be passed by means of bush ropes, and in the wet season he is not get-at-able at all.
Travels in West Africa
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The hotel is get-at-able both by car and other means of traffic.
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She was so hard, and so more than usually cynical and unget-at-able.
Dangerous Ages
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We should like this to take shape by the end of the year, as the people will be more get-at-able in their villages in such a visitation kind of way than in the ordinary church methods during the dry season.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
