How to Use get it together in a Sentence
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Pick herself up from the floor, wipe the tears from her eyes and get it together.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
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Will this show get it together and show us what’s going down there by the end of the season?
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
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These are just facts, but those don’t matter if the Utes can’t get it together on the road finally.
—Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
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Well, get it together, girl — Joey's Uncle Joe just walked in!
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2023
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Those who offered it doubled down on expansion, and those who didn't scrambled to get it together.
—Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2021
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The star-laden club is seven points out of a playoff spot and could be running out of time to get it together before the trade deadline.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
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But what’s necessary here is for the companies to get it together and be ready to talk about the issues on the table.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
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The actor did indeed ‘get it together’ and is doing the needful to make things official.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
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Proceed with your plans, have a nice time and give this future in-law the opportunity to get it together once her own life calms down.
—Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
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Maybe Congress will get it together enough to pass a mask-maker stimulus program.
—Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2021
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Auburn’s defense should be stout again, but can the Tigers get it together offensively in the early going?
—Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 1 July 2022
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Faith in her friends’ talents and in their ability to eventually get it together and right one another’s wrongs.
—Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
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Hoping that the Steelers get it together with all their young players and create some real team chemistry for the season.
—Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
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What tends to happen, in such circumstances, is that teams can get it together every now and again, but that consistency proves elusive.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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But who knows when those elections will be, how much damage will be done before then, and whether those opposition parties could ever get it together.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
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Eventually, his bosses ordered him to clean up his disorganized lab, start from scratch, get it together.
—P.e. Moskowitz september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Now that Drew Lock is back under center, the hope for Vic Fangio’s squad is that this unit will get it together.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
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The airliner is currently down about 27% this year as investors fear the worst for the fate of the company that just can’t seem to get it together.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
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With two weeks before hosting Kansas, a team also having an identity crisis, there's time to get it together.
—Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
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But, as many begin to recover, one airline emerges as a problem, unable to get it together — to the detriment of its customers and employees.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 24 July 2024
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If the Chargers can’t get it together, will Tom Telesco and Staley return for next season?
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
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The two weeks remaining before Trinity League play begins offers plenty of time to get it together.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
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History shows, though, that the Americans eventually get it together at the Games.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
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There’s also an assortment of private spaces in which to meditate, breastfeed, melt down, and get it together before returning to your desk to pollinate the world with cash.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2025
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In my experience, the second most common reason people quit and find new jobs, after looking for more money, is bosses who can’t get it together to treat their employees with respect.
—Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
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Ol’ heads were chattin’ that if Nick Saban didn’t get it together soon, Prime would roll into Tuscaloosa next and, then naturally, all hell would break loose.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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Boyce is confident that as the season progresses and more results are in the computer, and as more teams get it together and report all of their results, the accuracy of the rankings will improve.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
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The difference then is the Wolf Pack followed up with an 8-5 season and the first of four straight bowl appearances while the Rams are still struggling to get it together.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average can’t get it together lately.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her husband, Doug Emhoff, hitherto a stalwart, is exhausted (he’s been campaigning in Michigan) and doesn’t get it together to plan a special meal.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
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