gotten up

Example Sentences

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And what he is alleged to have gotten up to with Jeffrey Epstein was redolent of low moral character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Let’s hope that by now your employer’s human resources department has gotten up to speed on this important topic.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2025

Georgiev never saw the puck because of all the traffic in front of the net after Suter got a pass from Matt Duchene, who had just gotten up from taking a hit.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

The captain, Jacob Knowles, had gotten up at 3 a.m. on a brisk October morning and took his vessel 10 miles into the ocean.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2023

As usual, I had gotten up early in the morning, and I was sitting on the flat stone behind the house waiting for the city to wake up.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah