get about
verb
got about; got about or gotten about; getting about; gets about
1
: to become current : circulate
2
: to be up and about : begin to walk
able to get about again
Examples of get about in a Sentence
it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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Southern skies are predicted to get up to 60 meteors per hour, with the north getting about half that number.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
The project aims to plant 1,200 trees in the next four years and has only gotten about 100 in the ground, according to the site.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Cavanagh got about $20 million worth of company stock in March, as per usual.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion.
—Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
The project aims to plant 1,200 trees in the next four years and has only gotten about 100 in the ground, according to the site.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Cavanagh got about $20 million worth of company stock in March, as per usual.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion.
—Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for get about
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20about. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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