How to Use get on with (something or someone) in a Sentence

get on with (something or someone)

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  • These boots are also easy to get on with the handy pull tabs.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Most of us emerged the next year eager to get on with our lives.
    Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • In the meantime, the newly free refugees have lives to get on with.
    New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • Send your regrets, go to the concert, and get on with your life.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
  • There’s no alternative but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Just stash them inside the wallet like normal and get on with your day.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Someone should give him fifty million dollars and tell him to get on with it.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • It has been designed so that people who like driving can get on with just that.
    Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 12 May 2024
  • Its moments are still shocking, but day to day there’s a need to just get on with business.
    WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • There is a huge need to just get on with the work of modernization and fix the problems.
    Madelyn Creedon, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
  • In the meantime, best just forget the gimmicky time-setting and get on with the show.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But there are other reasons to get on with the Ewers era, which may be brief, at that.
    Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This volume is a call to get on with the practice of getting free together.
    Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The bride passed along her measurements to Zoey and left her to get on with the dress-making process.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • However, when in doubt, carry a miniature fan in your purse, and get on with your business!
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
  • Look who’s back in town, ready to stop dawdling between pitches and get on with the business of playing at a crisp pace.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Go ahead and get on with the merging, carefully and mindfully, thanks.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But the path the conflict takes could allow some residents to more readily get on with their lives.
    WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The actors appeared relieved when England won the stressful shoot-out and were able to get on with their show.
    Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
  • End this process, declare bankruptcy and get on with Chicago’s bright future.
    Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Fortunately for the fans, the two sides were eventually able to put the bad blood behind them and get on with the show.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • So, yes, get on with the business of replacing your candidate — and the sooner the better.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Harris’ response was a longwinded tale of her middle-class upbringing, which bored the host, who begged her to get on with it.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Take a solid look at a few PDLCs, pick one that seems to resonate with you, and get on with it.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • In my view, the true nakba of the Arabs is their refusal to accept peaceful coexistence and get on with life.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • The idea was to take your courses, do your exams, write your dissertation, and then, five or ten or a hundred years later, to get on with your life.
    Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • He’ll be comforted by his family and team members, then get on with his life as a father, son, and the 49ers’ long-term coach.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • So the better that previs looks, the better the scene is thought through, the more everybody can get on with their jobs of making it into the live-action world.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Better to scrap the old Gremlin-cum-Spirit and get on with a proper program for the Eighties.
    David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Once that claim is approved, AI can help release the money to get the repairs done faster so that the homeowner can get on with their lives.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025

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