If Slavin gets him, his wife and babies will never see him on earth or in heaven.
When he gets repentant, instead of shooting himself, he comes to Mrs. Mavor.
But don't you know, youngster, the water gets into these trumpets, and makes them sound different?
If he oncegets hold of me, he'll give me a squeeze I shall not like.
When she gets older she will replace my regular governess, and I shall save the salary.
Have you considered what is likely to happen, when he gets this?
We'll be in the Solar System less than a week after he gets there.
When Stutsman gets into the game," he said, "all hell will break loose.
If he really gets that, it will be something worth having.
If Chambers really gets that machine of his to rolling, space will be the only place big enough to hide in.
If he gets close enough so he can fill those accumulators, he'll pack a bigger wallop than we do.
If somebody else gets in the way, of course they have to take the rap along with him.
A tramp who is given a quarter feels a deal more lucky than if he gets a chance to earn a dollar.
They were filled with fear, and fear is the finish of everything upon which it gets a clutch.
After having written all this, it seems to me that I look upon what has passed with more calmness; and compassion gets the better of my indignation.
Do you think she ought to have all the meanest, hardest work in the world, and get paid nothing for it, working from the time she gets up in the morning till she goes to bed at night?
Work's work, and it makes no difference who does it, as long as it gets done!
I would like Rosa to write and tell me how shegets on at school.
If he gets tired of hearing the story, he's got other thoughts to occupy his mind.
You could tell that what he meant was "When Stanley Woodward starts out for a thing, he gets it.
It's a curious thing, isn't it, Sir Gilbert, that when a man is really satisfied with himself he getsto look like a sheep.
No one gets himself up in that style who means to go in for serious crime.
It was all very well pulling my leg last night, and I didn't mind it a bit; but a thing like that gets to be stale the next morning.
I'm not quite sure how it's done, but the taste all goes out of it, and it gets extremely tough.
Any man who knows anything about women gets into the way of judging them very largely by the expression of their eyes.
For instance, I have noticed that if you chop up an onion with a knife, and then spread butter with the same knife, the butter gets a most objectionable taste.
Everything else he gets will have more or less paraffin in it, except the butter, and it's to taste of onions.
Not that it will really be much use if the judge gets at him.
I see no reason to alter my opinion that she will marry and afterwards kill Simpkins as soon as ever she gets the chance.
Foolish boys that knock at a door in wantonness, will not stay till somebody open to them; but a man that hath business will knock, and knock again, till he getshis answer.
Like a letter in a word, or a word in a sentence, he gets his meaning from his context; but the sentence is meaningless without him; rays from the whole universe converge in him.
Robinson used to say: "It is ordained of almighty God that the man who dips into everything never gets to the bottom of anything.
In knowing self in connection with moral law, man not only gets his best knowledge of self, but his best knowledge of that other self opposite to him, namely, God.
Other houses seem to have their days, turn and turn about; but that 'un gets him constant.
A few shillings paid to her weekly while she gets up her strength might set her going again.
If he happens to be here when I come in, he gets up and goes away.
And, as sure as we are born, this new dodge of education, if it ever gets a footing, will turn the country upside down.
We do her business at old Belford's, and she gets talking about the money to him, making no scruple of openly wishing it was hers.
It is a fine, manly sport, for with all the odds against him, the fox often gets away.
When it gets so thick as to be difficult to beat add a little vinegar, then add the juice of the lemon and the whipped cream, and place on ice until desired to be used.
A man of honesty and character seldom gets into difficulty at his club.
Fruit also should be carefully packed by itself, for if food gets mixed and mussy, even a mountain appetite will shun it.
The gossip of couriers and maids at a foreign watering-place reaches American ears, and unluckily gets into American newspapers sometimes.
As, for instance, the drawer gets the word "Africa" and the question "Have you an invitation to my wedding?
If a housekeepergets a number of German servants in training and thinks them perfect, she need not be astonished if some fine morning she rises and finds them gone off to parts unknown.
One gets a wholesome sense of invigorating sea air, healthy exercise, and that delightful smell of the short, fresh grass.
If one gets a cup of tea in Spain, there is no cream to put in it; and to many tea drinkers, tea is ruined without milk or cream.
It is often the fate of the hostess, in the busy season, to invite forty people before she gets twelve.
It is whispered about amongst the bridesmaids; itgets into the papers.
In the principal hotels of Spain one gets all the evils of both Spanish and Gascon cookery.
But Carlyle gets better and writes his noble essay on Robert Burns, the life of John Sterling, Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches.
Be square with yourself and square to the man who is after your heart; put yourself mentally in the place of a wife, when a man gets serious.
Theories without fact leaves man in a rudderless boat; he gets nowhere, he only drifts.
The sensitive wife of the house gets stinging remarks that abide with her after the lord and master of the house has departed.
In the home the family gets up plenty early enough, songs and jokes, kisses and love pats are found, the family is on time, and there is happiness all around.
Through the animal food he gets the mineral from the flesh he eats, which flesh was first of all built up through the vegetables the animal ate.
When a womangets angry, she quarrels with her lover, her husband or her children.
It is sit, sit, sit until he gets a big abdomen, a puffy skin and a bad liver.
The millionaire thinks, dreams and gets dollars and that is all.
There is no one to nag him or bother him; it gets to be his "hang-out," and soon he drifts into a crowd that knows the trail to the red light district.
I believe I hear more birds, I believe I get more pleasure out of life and living than the man who gets angry and loves revenge.
The other, the one per cent, seeks mental pleasures, and this little group is the one that gets the real, lasting, satisfying and improving pleasures.
Through the vegetable he gets the mineral necessary for his body building.
If he doesn't get this comeraderie at home he gets it "round the corner.
Let us go on for a few more years knitting our business and industrial relations into those of the white man, till a black man gets a mortgage on a white man's house that he can foreclose at will.
It is easy to understand why the negro rarely gets ahead in the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: gets back; gets dark
