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Example sentences for "getting through"

  • Poynter with a gay laugh, "and we'll have a shot at getting through to-night.

  • The bolder we are, the more chance we shall have of getting through.

  • The others are still confident of getting through--or pretend to be--I don't know!

  • If we were all fit I should have hopes of getting through, but the poor Soldier has become a terrible hindrance, though he does his utmost and suffers much I fear.

  • We know that where thick pack may be found early in January, open water and a clear sea may be found in February, and broadly that the later the date the easier the chance of getting through.

  • There was just a chance of getting through, but we have stuck half-way, advance and retreat equally impossible under sail alone.

  • Again Scott began to take a hopeful view of getting through, unless the surfaces became infinitely worse.

  • We had great difficulty in getting through, from the quantity of dead timber, which has torn our saddle-bags and clothes to pieces.

  • At twenty-eight miles, seeing no prospect of getting through it, I returned two miles to a small open space, where I could tether the horses.

  • We had great difficulty in getting through, many places being so very thick with dead mulga.

  • I am more inclined to think that he has been taken prisoner," Easton said; "he would hardly have gone out to meet the square, as he must have seen the plains swarming with Arabs and that he had no chance whatever of getting through.

  • I really think, Easton, I have a very fair chance of getting through it without being found out.

  • Of course he would have no chance of getting through if he had to go in for the competition; but something like half the number of marks are enough for the qualifying examination.

  • So I pretended to be very lame and could hardly go, and as we traveled along told him that I would still live in hopes of getting through to our lines and to friends.

  • Methinks that, while fifty men would not succeed in getting through to the army, two might, perchance, manage to do so.

  • No; but they are mere loopholes, and there is no getting through them.

  • Well, since you bear a royal letter I cannot stop you; but it seems to me that your chance of getting through is small, indeed.

  • If it had not been for Blacking pluckily getting through them to take you the news, I don't think we should have seen daylight.

  • I have spoken of it as a day's journey, but it is only under the most favourable circumstances that it has ever been accomplished in that time, and sometimes traders have been three or four days in getting through.

  • Two or three mounted officers only succeeded in getting through.

  • There is a chance Sarah Dillard succeeded in getting through to the Spring," Evan whispered in a tremulous tone.

  • Evan and I might push forward on foot, trusting to getting through in time.

  • He had discovered a patent and infallible way of getting through!

  • Between Wilhelm Christophersen and Ole Engelstad there was no means of getting through.

  • The Antarctic had made repeated attempts to reach the winter station, but the state of the ice was bad, and they had to give up the idea of getting through.

  • No doubt they will scatter along the line, and we shall then have a good chance of getting through.

  • The commanding officers held a council of war, and decided that, after we had had some refreshment and a few hoursʼ rest, we should make a night march as the best chance of getting through.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "getting through" 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:
    after hearing; being sick; cried passionately; designs upon; far and; for several; getting along; getting away; getting back; getting better; getting home; getting late; getting money; getting rid; getting very; just peace; merry heart; nature and; private corporations; revealed unto; rubbed smooth; seemed incredible; shaped blossoms; through the; wherein thou; years after