get down
Example Sentences
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Firefighters climbed stairs and ran toward mortal danger, while a cascade of people tried as hard as they could to get down.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“That’s not a common practice, for someone at my level, for the CEO to roll up their sleeves and get down to the front lines,” he added, but sometimes it’s “critical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
From there it takes around five hours to reach the peak and a further three hours to get down, climbing guides suggest.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Then I started thinking about summer imagery: ‘Folks get down in the sunshine, folks get brown in the sunshine, just bees and things and flowers.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Trying to get down every single thing that’s happened the past two days.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
