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
  • In particular, fire blight readily spreads from hawthorns to neighboring apples, as well as pear trees, and causes these trees to drop their blossoms, stop fruiting, display wilted stems and leaves, and develop other problems.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Options strategy With an IV Rank of 47%, options prices are moderately elevated, making debit vertical spreads an efficient way to capture upside exposure.
    Tony Zhang, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If your perfect visit means patio dining, lakeside escapes, and neighborhood fairs, summer is hard to beat.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Using porous graphite felt and enhanced heat transfer, gas released from the resin escapes while a vacuum system removes it, allowing crowns to survive the process without cracking.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Senator Murphy said the incident is part of a pattern of behavior from DHS wherein the agency publishes misleading information in an attempt to justify violent incidents.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Department of Public Instruction routinely gathers and publishes data on other potential signs of student harm, such as how often students are chronically absent, experience homelessness or feel unsafe at school — but not the frequency of educator misconduct.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 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
  • Specifically, the surprise that comes with developing every roll of film is one of the biggest perks of the process, according to Quigley, who prints her photos regularly at her local camera store.
    Liz Regalia, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of invasive surgeries, patients might someday swallow a capsule that travels to the injury site and prints new tissue directly on it.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jack and his friends left $20,000 in tips, which comes out to a decent $1,818 each, though 1 million wouldn’t be enough.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The notion that Tyler cultivated an audience of white incels flies in the face of the many Black fans that Odd Future had at the very beginning.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bradenton, Florida Dotted with pristine sugar-white beaches, turquoise waters, no high rises and smaller crowds, Bradenton flies below the usual radar in comparison to nearby Tampa or Sarasota.
    Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Gets out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gets%20out. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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