How to Use get hold of in a Sentence

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• There’s plenty to get hold of here.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
• The baby got hold of some bedsheets.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
• But with a few tricks, a hacker can still get hold of the passwords.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• Or get hold of a completely specious list of the best this-or-that.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• But that doesn’t stop younger people from getting hold of vape products.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• Sometimes his daughter gets hold of her parents’ phones and scrolls.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• How, without rudder or wing, to steer, To get hold of this floating grave.
  — Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• As she was being choked, the woman managed to get hold of her cell phone and call 911.
  — cleveland, 13 June 2022
• During the drive, Lee was able to get hold of King’s cell phone and call 911.
  — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
• That was the unknowable quality Napoleon couldn’t get hold of.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life?
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
• To make sure your pup doesn't get hold of any of your items, avoid leaving clothing lying around in the house and keep wardrobes and drawers closed.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
• Diggs got hold of that football and handed it to his son, Aaiden, who was also seated in the front row.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• The child’s mother was in the car when the boy got hold of a gun belonging to her friend, who was outside of the car, Spiess said.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 22 May 2025
• De la Peña tried to fight back, eventually getting hold of the skateboard and hitting them.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
• Here’s what to do if you iPhone is stolen — and how to reduce the impact now in case criminals do get hold of your device.
  — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
• After having nothing to eat for breakfast or lunch, the family managed to get hold of three tins of fava beans.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2024
• Mou acknowledges the dangers of patients not being able to get hold of their prescribers and is looking to improve this.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022
• But there's always a chance that some idiots somewhere will get hold of this information a few months from now and start making noise about it.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
• Or maybe DeepMind had somehow managed to get hold of a cache of unpublished data?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• The risk of strengthening Hamas, if Hamas got hold of the fuel or the food, was a serious question.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
• As supply lines falter, horses may become easier to get hold of than motorbikes.
  — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• In stairwells, people sat cross-legged on the floor as many anxiously typed on their cellphones, trying to get hold of friends and relatives.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• It’s been a long wait for many Samsung users to be able to get hold of Android 15’s benefits on their phones.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
• At a central Barcelona food market over a month ago, one of the stall owners told me fans had been asking around for advice on how to get hold of them.
  — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• Rusnak spent Tuesday afternoon trying to get hold of anyone with the airlines to try to fix his problem.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Will Victor have need of it later and not have it, or will someone else get hold of it, or will Boyd’s life be saved thanks to having it?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• One officer spotted Eeyore and quickly got hold of him, asking him to show her where the missing woman was.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
• The study's findings, while unsurprising, highlight the risk people may take in efforts to get hold of the popular drugs.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024
• Experts were at times flummoxed and impressed by how Lively managed to get hold of the text messages in the absence of a lawsuit.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024