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Example sentences for "getting hold"

  • As to getting hold of an artilleryman, I don't know that that would be difficult.

  • I am a pretty good sailor, and there ought to be no great difficulty in getting hold of a boat and making out to sea and, when once away, I could steer for England, or get on board some vessel bound there.

  • We must go on foot this time, and trust to getting hold of a couple of horses, the first time we defeat the Blues.

  • This was fortunate, as it generally kept him sober; still the old man never lost an opportunity of getting hold of his favourite liquor, and he would seldom leave the bottle while a drop remained.

  • Now Iffley knows that you have no protection, and he has the power of getting hold of you.

  • When he had not had a telephone message from Norton in forty-eight hours, he had decided that the Black Hundred had finally succeeded in getting hold of him.

  • A young and beautiful woman did not jump from a big Atlantic liner without the newspapers getting hold of the facts.

  • He then dashed forward again, and succeeded in getting hold of the spar to which the second man was lashed.

  • Nep might be able to catch some animals for him, but he won't succeed in getting hold of a bird.

  • Striking out for his life, Dick succeeded in getting hold of a piece of timber.

  • All right, Wal, I am now," was the reply, as he succeeded in getting hold of the limb over which that to which he clung was chafing.

  • But you have probably thought of some way, if you should succeed in getting hold of him, to get him and yourselves home?

  • With their aid he dismounted, and, getting hold of the captain's hand, which he extended most cordially, he continued to pour forth his protestations of respect and affection.

  • Hitherto in the matter of diamonds he had been straight; but he had never concealed from himself that if he got one good chance of getting hold of a big diamond he would make no bones about it.

  • You see, I don't believe much in luck, except the luck of getting hold of a good thing when you know how to work it.

  • He succeeded in getting hold of the boy's arm.

  • Frank and Tommy sprang to his assistance at once, reaching down in the hope of getting hold of his hand, but the swift current carried the boy along until he was beyond their reach.

  • We'll have the case tied up tight if we succeed in getting hold of this third boy.

  • And, getting hold of him, he took him down and showed him a place which seemed covered with red blood.

  • Upon which God, getting hold of her, threw her into a box filled with ashes.

  • The cat swam to the ark and, getting hold of the door step, climbed on to the sill and lay down there to bask in the sun.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "getting hold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another animal; getting along; getting away; getting back; getting better; getting hold; getting money; getting out; getting rid; getting through; getting tired; getting very; getting well; great glee; high rock; humid summers; just before; legal existence; low water; more seen; much extolled; singular fact; that lady; then take; three battalions; you wanted