get across
Example Sentences
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At times they were slow to get across, allowing Pedro Porro to play accurate long balls down the line.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
“You try to get across it’s not about where you get drafted,” Snead said Thursday night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
“It wasn’t like having another actor who had another agenda or actions or a perspective that they wanted to get across in the scene,” Foy says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
“It could actually be somewhat helpful, because they’re trying to get across ‘the bar is higher’ without saying, ‘We’re not going to do something that we might very well wind up wanting to do.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
But first I must somehow get across to the other side of the kitchen and then up on to the middle shelf.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
