How to Use get away with in a Sentence

get away with

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  • Can anybody chill it for less and still manage to get away with it?
    — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
  • That is how the Trumps and Bidens get away with their wrongdoings.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The thieves still got away with cash, jewelry and other valuables.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Try to get away with writing a bare-bones self-description, and the app will prompt you to try harder.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026
  • So, how does the Falcon Mini get away with using just two props?
    — New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After practice, Brown joked that Mitchell got away with holding.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • No, that's also not to say an atheist athlete should be able to get away with this and shouldn't have to apologize.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Also, the perpetrators got away with their crime by simply acting like tourists.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 27 July 2026
  • Perhaps what did the most to turn the public against steroids was the sense that some athletes were breaking the rules and getting away with it.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Who doesn’t want to hear about the possible soulless and depraved having an affair and getting away with it?
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • When a top performer gets away with toxic behavior because their numbers are good, that is your culture.
    — Monte Wyatt, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Pass interference calls aren't reviewable, so the Broncos and Bryant maybe got away with one.
    — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The immediate question is just how neat an insertion the new BQE can get away with.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Some saw the other cheaters get away with it and concluded the prompt forbidding cheating had no teeth—that there wouldn’t be any punishment for cheating.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Being unbelievably wealthy comes with powerful perks — like getting away with being too cheap to pay people the money they’re owed.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
  • After pulling a knife on the cashier, Lopez was able to get away with $300, according to a criminal complaint.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • Sure enough, Day 1 of Wimbledon was defined to some extent by the slips — and those players who got away with them, and those who didn’t.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • The robbery suspects got away with cellphones, watches, car keys, wallets, driver's licenses and money.
    — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Gardeners in areas with mild winters can also get away with dividing and transplanting in the fall once the summer heat has subsided.
    — The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Beautiful could get away with a measure of artifice, as a presentation about performance.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Eventually, the girls strike a plan to kill Lizzie’s parents using one of her father’s axes and Lizzie manages to get away with the crime.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The person who reads a stack of newsletters before breakfast gets treated as diligent, and the person who scrolls for an hour and calls it research gets away with it entirely.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Giants got away with careless ball security against the Cowboys, duly noted by the Rams.
    — Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • For me, the future is a future where more cities look like San Francisco, where crime is incredibly hard to get away with—so hard that people just choose not to do it.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 29 July 2026
  • In Elizabeth Meriwether’s new thriller series, Furious, as in our world, girls and women are bought, sold, traded, and used by men who get away with it.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 July 2026
  • The public-shaming impulse has been, at times, a reaction to years of bad behavior—particularly among men accustomed to getting away with a lot and facing very few repercussions.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • But there’s a fundamental abstraction to the theater that allows plays to get away with things that a movie like Prima Facie, which works so hard to place its action in a tangible world, doesn’t.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
  • How Often To Clean Your Oven Occasional bakers can get away with cleaning the oven once a season, or about every three months.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Every shot DeChambeau takes is recorded by cameras, whereas players who aren't subject to that level of scrutiny might be able to get away with a bit of say, adjustment, to the conditions around them.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
  • Romantic and financial motive Prosecutors have focused on Flynn’s romantic and financial motive for wanting to kill his wife and get away with it.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

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