get better

Example Sentences

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“She needs help to get better so she can take care of you. In the meantime, you’ll live with another nice family for a few weeks.”

From Literature

“But you know what they did? They made me go live with strangers and dragged my mom to a hospital and told her she’d have to get better if she wanted to be my mom. But if you know my mom like I do, you know she can’t stand to be stuck in one place. It’s why she moved so much. It’s why during the lockdown she got so much worse.”

From Literature

And unlike Laura, who’d had surgery and chemo and now radiation to get better, his mom hadn’t even stayed in the hospital even though she would lose him if she left.

From Literature

Not when the gym teacher had noticed his worrisome low weight and sent him to the guidance counselor, who’d asked him what was happening at home and then commended him for telling the truth and promised things would get better.

From Literature

Sena prayed things would get better, but they only got worse, and people began fleeing the half-built man-made village like they’d fled their submerged homes.

From Literature