How to Use get (something) through to (someone) in a Sentence

get (something) through to (someone)

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  • Trump supporters have tried to get through to the far left for years.
    Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Gilbert can sometimes get through to Gauff where her parents can’t.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Whether or not her latest message will get through to her fans remains to be seen.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In many schools, those are the hoops a student must get through to join honors classes.
    Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • This seems to get through to Jake, or at least calm him down enough to rethink the scenario.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Others have tried and failed to get through to the company by phone or online.
    Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Google at first struggled to get through to Musk to discuss the unpaid bills.
    Julia Love, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • Your husband has tried to get through to his mother, but without success.
    Annika Ringle, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Ancelotti wants this message to get through to the dressing room.
    Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • Of course, these methods may get through to inveterate gifters.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Xavier, watching the news while at work, can’t get through to Teri, who is in Atlanta.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • What Muzerall wanted to get through to her team was the mental aspect of the game.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • If press-freedom groups can’t get through to Modi, perhaps Biden can.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • But the person who may be in a better position to get through to him is his therapist.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • For the entire second week of the war, Alexander hadn’t been able to get through to his brother.
    David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
  • At the same time, many of them are trying hard to find a way to get through to parents who are afraid of vaccinating.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2014
  • Though there are only a handful of golden buzzers to hand out, contestants can still try to get through to the live shows.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Half an hour later, Hovey was able to get through to her mom on FaceTime.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Thousands more couldn’t get through to buy tickets at all, forcing them to resort to ticket-resale sites.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a hidden way to get through to someone whose phone is set to Do Not Disturb.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Occasionally, though, the activism seems to get through to brands, says Byrne.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The first three calls about the crash didn't get through to an operator immediately.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
  • How did Mark’s speech manage to get through to the DMN employees?
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Even when researchers can get through to Twitter, responses are slow—sometimes taking more than a day.
    WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Why doesn’t Hank get through to him emotionally the way Sally and Cousineau do?
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The problem is coach Tom Herman and his staff have struggled to get through to their players week after week.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Berkson emailed and texted her contacts at the Capitol Police but couldn’t get through to anyone that night.
    Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That said, Chaplin had an unquestionable talent for telling a story, for finding a way to get through to people.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Payton called the Texas Workforce Commission’s fraud line, but couldn’t get through to anyone.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 26 July 2021
  • Short films, which explore the long-lasting consequences of car theft, are one of many tools Barnett says are needed to get through to young people.
    Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2021

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