How to Use get away with in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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