get at

Example Sentences

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“Half a mile to the gate,” he said, covering his broken tooth with his upper lip so the wind couldn’t get at it.

From Literature

He's a big strong boy that gets his team up the pitch and he gets at the opposition - and Digne had no answers for him.

From BBC

The work he gets at the center can bring in another $400 a month, just enough to get by.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’m going to wait and see what I’ve got at the end of the week,” I told them.

From Literature

In all of this, he’s getting at something powerful but hard to quantify that we all perhaps have felt, if only briefly, at one time or another.

From The Wall Street Journal