get up
Example Sentences
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To get up to speed, the company picked through the wreckage of previous boom-bust cycles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
"I was using my walking stick pretty much all the time at that point and I could barely get up the stairs", she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
On Friday, Fanara’s daughter Michelle Fanara said, her father was working on a project at a neighboring property, stepped inside Palermo, lay down to rest and did not get up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Like other early versions of geothermal systems, it's an expensive project to get up and running.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
I try to get up, but skeletal hands burst through the wooden planks and hold me and Cocoa down.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
