How to Use get back at (someone) in a Sentence

get back at (someone)

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• Tommy could not wait for his chance to get back at me for cutting his hair.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• When an agent dies during a mission, his wife takes his place to get back at the person who killed him.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
• The girls begin casting spells to fulfill their teenage desires and get back at those who’ve wronged them.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• So, what this was was my immaturity and trying to get back at her.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Finally, Brady might want to get back at New England twice a year.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2021
• One of them figured that the best way to get back at the other was to sell his portion of the land to Black people.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2021
• The British were still trying to get back at upstart America.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
• Stephanie is actually trying to get back at Tad for moving on with her best friend just days after her death.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
• However, Billy had a chance to get back at Alec once the actor got a little older.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
• That very next practice, South Oldham was eager to get back at it and close their season out on a newer stronger note.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022
• Justice said that Manchin primarily wrote that provision as a way to get back at the governor.
  — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2021
• The bad blood escalated when Abbott used his veto power to get back at the Senate.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
• Greg does get back at him, though, by tapping aggressively on a TV screen bearing Kendall’s image.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
• Many policymakers around the world assume that employees breach security rules to get back at them out of malice.
  — Ali Allage, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• This could be done by an AI developer who has become upset and wants to get back at the AI maker.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• The two eventually hatch a plan to get back at their exes by pretending to be together, but things take a turn when the pair just might unexpectedly fall in love.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
• As Beane explains to his team, the two acted as card counters who were ready to get back at the casino — or teams with astronomical budgets and star power.
  — Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
• Brian was able to get back at Brittney for this embarrassing reveal during a tour of her closet when the musician asked about the contents of her boots.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
• The first of those days off is Sunday, a day the Dodgers might have wanted a chance to quickly get back at it and put their Game 1 failures behind them.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• While the ridiculous move is first intended as a scheme by the team’s owner to get back at her cheating husband, Ted somehow charms his way through the whole institution.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 8 June 2022
• In a quest for normalcy over the past few months of closures, the desire among gym-goers to get back at it has seemed subordinate only to people’s urge to return to bars and restaurants.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
• Easing into things With the holiday season in full swing, the Baylor basketball team was scrambling to get back at it on Monday.
  — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The base version of the trading and building game is always a great time for up to four players — at least until your sister hordes all the sheep just to get back at you for that tiny little double-cross that really wasn’t all that bad.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 14 July 2023
• But the court sided with the work’s former owner and an expert from the Met, who suggested that Balthus was trying to get back at his ex-wife, who had authenticated it in the first place.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Even though Stanley would prefer more time to mix and match her roster together the Fever area eager to get back at it on Friday and potentially notch their first win of the season.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2021
• Their theme is that the average man and woman finally has a way to get launched on an asset destined to dominate the financial world of the future and a chance to get back at the banks and brokerages that have shortchanged them for years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Perez’s lawyer, Shawn Halbert, told jurors in opening statements that Rocha’s testimony is his latest act in an ongoing attempt to get back at Perez over their feud.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024