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How To Use getting In A Sentence

• For the owners of the Ivy to worry about people thinking they are just for VIPs is a little like a lion getting upset for being called a carnivore. Restaurant review: 34
• There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
• If they come in close and start getting a bit tasty, then they find I can hand it out too.
• Getting deeper into the study of morality showed me that human nature is very much two-sided; for every bad side to our nature, there's a good one.
• When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green 
• A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney 
• She's getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.
• HIV-positive Pedro Zamora from the San Francisco season, for example, put a face to the stigmatized disease of AIDS and did a world of good with his exposure -- even getting the recognition of then-president Bill Clinton. Ryan O'Connell: Auditioning for the Real World Is Too Real
• There were bestiaries in the Library, she knew, but finding and getting access to them could be a problem. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
• Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards. Moby Dick; or the Whale