Getting is an English word with synonyms like feat or effort. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Getting in a sentence
Related words
Getting meaning
present participle and gerund of get
Using Getting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of get
- Useful related words include: acquiring, deed, feat, effort.
- In the example corpus, getting often appears in combinations such as: and getting, getting the, are getting.
Example sentences (20)
She's sort of getting to know this crew as the audience is getting to know this crew, and she's getting to know herself as the audience is getting to know her.
B- Getting a higher grade on an exam C-Needing more tutoring to get those higher grades D- Getting higher grades consistently E- Not getting tutoring F – Grades drop G – Getting tutoring again H- and so on.
Among the topics to be addressed at the meetings include getting better academic and social/emotional help at school; not getting suspended or expelled; and getting skills to go to college, work, and live independently.
It was all of it - getting on the bus, getting changed, getting really sweaty, the competitive people shouting at you for not doing the right thing.
The shorthand to this season is you're getting some Star Wars, you're getting some Vampires, you get some spy stuff with some infiltration, and you're getting a lot of explosions that you get to look cool walking away from.
The evenings are getting brighter and we’re getting close to summer time, that means that the events calendar is getting busy with plenty of options to suit all interests.
After they are made, female-directed films face difficulty getting into festivals, getting distribution and getting accolades because of the gatekeepers at every level.
Not getting an inspection done risks you getting a car that needs work, but getting it done could mean you risk losing the car to another buyer.
We know there are a lot of jobs young people aren’t getting a chance to occupy or aren’t getting paid enough or aren’t getting benefits like insurance.
Although most people would think this feat is less exciting than getting a hole-in-one, and it probably is, the odds of the average golfer getting a hole-in-one is 1 in 12,500.
A: Merchants are getting access to customers that they may not have had access to before, through the option of getting interest-free credit.
And getting a regular saver also means getting a current account with the bank that offers it.
And getting to do TV, getting to be involved and engaged and stay around what you did your entire life, that’s great.
And with other ex-YA actors getting more prestige recognition — like Jacob Elordi and ex-Disney star — Melton is next on the short but impressive list of actors getting out of teen television and going on to do great things.
Based in The Villages, about an hour northwest of Florida, they added: "You have housewives getting drunk at lunch and getting into their carts and crashing.
Ben Lowry was getting worked up on The View last night about the UK government getting fed up with our continual demands for more money.
But the other mega campaigns you talked about are what they are doing which just getting a venue, pulling all party members there, getting Wasiu Ayinde to sing, everybody, dancing and returning home.
But there's also the new fear of getting crushed by a pane of glass, getting ripped in half by an elevator, being impaled thanks to a delayed airbag deployment, being blown up by a BBQ grill, and being trisected by fence shrapnel.
But we're getting excited, though, we're seeing with the acquisition of VanHooseCo, it gives us the opportunity to hit adjacent spaces that we were not serving with our legacy business, that getting into the moving or securing order, if you will.
But with the kids getting older and the house getting smaller, Karen and Deon are faced with more challenges than ever before.
Common combinations with getting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and getting 47×
- getting the 21×
- are getting 20×
- of getting 19×
- getting to 18×
- not getting 17×
- is getting 13×
- was getting 13×
- getting them 13×
- re getting 11×