get off

Example Sentences

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“It makes me sick. I want to vomit. If they want to help me, then help me get off welfare by paying a decent wage.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But the response has been slow to get off the ground in a province where state services have been largely absent from rural areas for decades.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

“It’s so beautiful that everyone agreed to get off the phone, off their couch on a Tuesday in the middle of the week.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

"You can come on the train at Leeds where you bump into people every second, and you get off the train here and there's nobody. There's just scenery."

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Those are largely people who never truly get off the bus but shoot pictures through the windows.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen