How to Use get around to (something) in a Sentence

get around to (something)

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  • The Court might not get around to hearing this case until early next term.
    Evan Gerstmann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In a statement, Sennott promised to get around to titling the series.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2025
  • And, for whatever reason, didn’t get around to sending the ring sooner.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
  • Vivian Nguyn is a Huntsville resident who prefers to get around to other parts of the city on her bike.
    al, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Forget about waiting for the hostess to get around to acknowledging your presence.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • There was no telling when a worker assigned to checking documents would get around to this application.
    Hannah Dreier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Still, the notion that Scott would actually get around to following up one of his most beloved works is a bit of a miracle.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, the May 9 hearing could be consumed with motions from both sides and never even get around to resentencing.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Inevitably, the people Payne talked to get around to speculating about why emo’s third wave took off so explosively.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • The sites are largely shaded and place campers close to the Blue Ridge Parkway, the best way to quickly get around to the area’s many draws.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 12 July 2021
  • Drones, for the time being, are largely unaddressed by the directive, but the EU will likely get around to them.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a bit of delay on the guitar and a muffled heartbeat drum underneath the whole thing, and Martyn doesn’t get around to singing for a few minutes.
    Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Come 2022, Apple might finally, get around to including a touch screen as well as the faster refresh rate.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Though the book, by Jonathan Marc Sherman, takes far too long to get around to that revelation, that’s not exactly a spoiler.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Many inventors who are moving forward with their first journey do not even get around to thinking about marketing, but this is another important part of the process.
    Jon Stojan, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
  • Dominik does get around to showing her face, which is beaming as the camera points up toward Marilyn in outward supplication.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The timeline of the actual incident is compressed from years to months — the quicker to get around to the court case that ensues when Kempton is arrested.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But that does not precisely describe a book whose author does not get around to really delving into the details of his own upbringing until more than three hundred pages have elapsed.
    Larry Rohter, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2021
  • As the subject of the meeting was Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, Waters did eventually get around to that as well.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
  • It has been well noted that, whatever their starting points, conspiracy theorists sooner or later get around to blaming the Jews.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • Old Clothing Some families like to use a storage unit for seasonal clothes, while others never get around to donating the kids' outfits.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Light the wick, and wait for 10 to 15 minutes before serving so the butter is the perfect melty consistency by the time your friends or family get around to it.
    Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Fragmentation has been a major problem with Android as manufacturers have neglected to issue updates, or have been slow to get around to them.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 18 May 2021
  • Magic Mike's Last Dance does get around to an entirely new cast of performers, shifting Tatum to more of an artistic director.
    Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Veteran shortstop Dansby Swanson just didn’t get around to experimenting with it until this season.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Taylor Swift may not ever get around to responding directly to Dave Grohl‘s controversial weekend jibe.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 June 2024
  • All of them are also more creative (and more attention-getting) than simply printing a poster—a poster that front-line managers or HR staff may not get around to putting up, much less ever taking it down.
    Elizabeth Baskin, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps realizing that most people won’t buy that this is infrastructure spending, the White House doesn’t get around to discussing this proposal until more than halfway through its lengthy fact sheet.
    Jeffrey H. Anderson, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Big manufacturers are raising prices by thousands of dollars and might never get around to making electric vehicles that are widely affordable in India and Africa.
    Jack Ewing Atul Loke, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
  • China’s state-run media revealed that the country’s space agency plans to run its post-landing checks and may finally get around to sending photos back to Earth sometime around the end of May, which is still nearly two weeks away.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 18 May 2021

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