Below you will find example sentences with "getting ready". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Getting Ready in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ready
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 21.4 words

Words in this phrase

getting ready

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • getting can mean: present participle and gerund of get Common word
  • ready can mean: Prepared for immediate action or use. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

bed and getting ready 1× charity is getting ready to mark 1× golf course getting ready for 2024 1× have been getting ready to distribute 1× hmd global getting ready to launch 1× i was getting ready to drive 1× look happy getting ready for a 1× mean besides getting ready to get 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a charity is 1× a few weeks 1× a perfect oberon 1× aleksandr lukashenko said 1× and don t 1× as we start 1×

Common sentence endings:

a charity ball 1× am not kidding 1× and getting ready 1× any potential suitors 1× are looking good 1× charles s reign 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

start 3× girls 3× season 3× new 3× took 2× hours 2× get 2× celebrate 2× first 2× know 2× album 2× charity 2×

Related phrases

get ready getting bigger getting stuck getting better getting worse getting closer getting harder getting stronger started getting aren getting

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around ready:

get ready 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

getting harder getting engaged getting closer getting bigger getting better gets closer

Just after it in the phrase index:

getting stronger getting stuck getting worse getty images ghana beyond ghana football

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

getting bigger getting stuck getting better getting worse getting closer getting harder

Same ending:

get ready

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "getting ready" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 21.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as bed and getting ready, charity is getting ready to mark, start, girls and season stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with get ready, getting bigger, getting stuck and get ready, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with getting ready

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A perfect Oberon Golf Course, getting ready for 2024. (9 words)

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “We are getting ready for it as much as possible. (13 words)

This can consist of getting in a spiritual mentality and getting ready to fast. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

A few weeks ago, as the first wave of smoke from the Canadian wildfires rolled south, I was getting ready to drive from Charlottesville, Virginia, about 18 hours west to my hometown of Rogers, Arkansas, to visit family. (38 words)

And don’t they look happy, getting ready for a war, playing with their multi-billion dollar toys… look in any playground: boys destroy, girls create, and this is what those boys grow up to be. (36 words)

The album is incredible, everyone is loving the album, I’m getting a great response…we’re getting ready to go on tour in September, so you know things are looking good. (32 words)

Question examples

So is HMD Global getting ready to launch its first ‘notch’ ready phone with Nokia X6? (16 words)

Example sentences (20)

Around 7 p.m., we would start getting ready, and when I say it took the girls three hours to get ready, I am not kidding.

Dunn said state health officials have been getting ready to distribute a vaccine, whenever it’s ready, for months.

I mean, besides getting ready to get ready for the 4th of July, the biggest reason to celebrate is Clemson Tigers superstar won’t be going to the Patriots any more.

Me and my girls getting ready for a night out ready to scare away any potential suitors.

So is HMD Global getting ready to launch its first ‘notch’ ready phone with Nokia X6?

The third episode of Season 3, "4-5-1," begins with strong and capable man Colin Hughes (Billy Harris) getting up out of bed and getting ready.

This can consist of getting in a spiritual mentality and getting ready to fast.

The Jackson County softball team and new coach Kristin Croteau spent the month of June getting ready for the season, and perhaps just as importantly, getting to know one another.

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The album is incredible, everyone is loving the album, I’m getting a great response…we’re getting ready to go on tour in September, so you know things are looking good.

A charity is getting ready to mark its 50th anniversary by hosting a charity ball.

A few weeks ago, as the first wave of smoke from the Canadian wildfires rolled south, I was getting ready to drive from Charlottesville, Virginia, about 18 hours west to my hometown of Rogers, Arkansas, to visit family.

After over a year, prosecutors in New are getting ready to formally charge for accidentally shooting dead Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “We are getting ready for it as much as possible.

And don’t they look happy, getting ready for a war, playing with their multi-billion dollar toys… look in any playground: boys destroy, girls create, and this is what those boys grow up to be.

A perfect Oberon Golf Course, getting ready for 2024.

As it's summer in Cumbria again, we're getting ready for a new season of festivals.

As we start getting ready for Christmas, we are all shopping more than usual.

Auction site is getting ready to offer up the one –the only – The Beast.

Before Gabrielle and Dwyane attended the award show, she took to of them getting ready.

But here we are, 70 years later, getting ready for street parties and other festivities to celebrate the start of King Charles’s reign.

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