How to Use do something about in a Sentence

do something about

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• But very few people are in a position to do something about it.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• What remained to be seen was whether the government could be convinced to do something about it.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• Why he's waited 20 years to do something about this is beyond me and very bad timing.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Also growing is the number of people stepping up to do something about it.
  — Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• Congress had a chance last year to do something about our domestic dark-money problem.
  — James Lardner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Kessin then went to see the graffiti for herself and became determined to do something about it.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• The 39-year-old wasn’t afraid of aging, but the realization last year inspired her to do something about it.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• Knowing his team was getting out-hustled on the glass in the previous game, Paul was trying to do something about it.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The University of Chicago recruit then set out to do something about it.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
• After that depressing news, is there hope in Northeast Ohio that someone in this state will do something about climate change?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
• Growing demands that government do something about that could bolster support for repealing the measure.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Noise pollution is a serious health concern — and California is trying to do something about it.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• That noise disturbed the neighborhoods—and one engineer, Eiji Nakatsu, decided to do something about it.
  — Ajay Jotwani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The growing momentum to do something about Callery pear trees, Hollibaugh said, gives the division more confidence that removing them is the right thing to do.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023
• And nothing is what Republicans seem to want to give to the IRS, which lacked the resources to do something about getting the rich to comply with the law.
  — Edward J. McCaffery, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley is working to do something about that by helping businesses turn food waste into clean energy through an anaerobic digester.
  — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Too many dead whales are washing ashore, and that has activists calling on President Biden to offshore — to do something about offshore wind energy activity.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• So, last year, after sending dozens of cold emails, McCarty began working with Washington state lawmakers to do something about the issue.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• To wrap your head around this gargantuan challenge—let alone start to do something about it—the socialist lens, which focuses on the material conditions of a problem, offers some useful insights.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• But along with the mourning there was a recognition that the community needed to do something about the online bullying that some members have experienced, Ridener said.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Some 30 million Netflix users are sharing passwords in the States and Canada, and that’s a big incentive for Netflix to do something about the practice.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
• One man’s trash Naylor’s personal campaign to clean up the river began innocently enough in 2017, when a friend challenged him to stop complaining about trash in the river and do something about it.
  — Karen Hendricks, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Also to its credit, the agency — which has so much to focus on, including its own solvency as ridership remains lackluster due to the pandemic — is trying to do something about it even if publicizing violence isn’t exactly great for the bottom line.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2023
• Three years ago, eight environmental groups asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to do something about nitrate contamination in drinking water in northeast Oregon.
  — Alex Baumhardt, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023