gets out

present tense third-person singular of get out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gets out This standoff goes on for almost 10 minutes before the driver finally gets out and is escorted away. Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 The problem comes when inflation gets out of hand — when average prices go up faster than average wages are going up. Vivian Tu, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gets out
Verb
  • Influenza, commonly known as the flu, spreads through close contact with people who are already sick with the virus or by touching objects with the virus on them.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Cells are so complex, however, that getting a sense of how one protein’s failure spreads through the system is tough.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Lo escapes the storage room and tries to find her way off the yacht undetected.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Lo escapes by jumping off the boat and swimming to shore.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When the investigation closes the agency publishes a final report — a public document.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • When Pew publishes its next Religious Landscape Study, around 2030-31, what will this graph look like?
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Similar alarms are ringing for ocean currents, where freshwater ice melt is slowing down a major marine highway that circulates heat, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.
    Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Once the washing is done, the drying system circulates warm air – 110 °F (43 °C) – through carpet fibers, drying up to 400 sq ft of carpet in around two hours.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Players take on the role of Enzo Favaro, a miner who survives a tunnel collapse and flees the pit after insubordinately attacking a cruel underboss.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Blazy gives Odhiang a deep hug, jogs around the runway, and flees toward the exit, smiling.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the operations supervisor in the tower was focused on trying to fix a printer which prints strips of paper with flight information and had jammed.
    Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But that ending reveal, which comes out of nowhere and leads us straight into the credits with no time to process it, will continue to spark debates for decades.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The film, which is a sequel to the classic 1990 Christmas movie, follows the young and spirited Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), who mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City while the rest of the family flies to Florida.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That said, both Painter and Brown said the airport video likely flies in the face of appropriations law.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Gets out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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