How to Use get on with (something or someone) in a Sentence

get on with (something or someone)

idiom
Definition of get on with (something or someone)next
  • The actors appeared relieved when England won the stressful shoot-out and were able to get on with their show.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
  • Kennedy, who shared his family’s famous determination to get on with things, was mostly unsympathetic.
    — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • In the meantime, the newly free refugees have lives to get on with.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • Most of us emerged the next year eager to get on with our lives.
    — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • These boots are also easy to get on with the handy pull tabs.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Send your regrets, go to the concert, and get on with your life.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Some people can suck it up and just get on with things.
    — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • The bride passed along her measurements to Zoey and left her to get on with the dress-making process.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Just stash them inside the wallet like normal and get on with your day.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But there are other reasons to get on with the Ewers era, which may be brief, at that.
    — Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There’s no alternative but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Its moments are still shocking, but day to day there’s a need to just get on with business.
    — WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • Someone should give him fifty million dollars and tell him to get on with it.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Look who’s back in town, ready to stop dawdling between pitches and get on with the business of playing at a crisp pace.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2023
  • It has been designed so that people who like driving can get on with just that.
    — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 12 May 2024
  • This volume is a call to get on with the practice of getting free together.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Better to scrap the old Gremlin-cum-Spirit and get on with a proper program for the Eighties.
    — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Fortunately for the fans, the two sides were eventually able to put the bad blood behind them and get on with the show.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • So, yes, get on with the business of replacing your candidate — and the sooner the better.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Now that the coronation is out of the way, Charles can get on with the business of beginning his reign in earnest, however that looks in 2023.
    — Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
  • However, when in doubt, carry a miniature fan in your purse, and get on with your business!
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
  • But the path the conflict takes could allow some residents to more readily get on with their lives.
    — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In my view, the true nakba of the Arabs is their refusal to accept peaceful coexistence and get on with life.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • Whereas, Jeremiah would have a glass of wine with the ladies quite happily and just get on with the business of mapping out the Mason-Dixon Line.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • He’ll be comforted by his family and team members, then get on with his life as a father, son, and the 49ers’ long-term coach.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • As Suh explains, the women expressed just wanting to get on with their work, for C.K.’s misconduct not to be the only thing they’re known for.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And so the motivation, in a sense, to get on with the agreement was, in my view, anyway, at least in part because of the need to fulfill the promise of the economy.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • What this really means: more travelers can skip baggage claim and just get on with their trip.
    — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
  • His distance-running career seemingly coming to a close in 2016, Reid Buchanan was ready to get on with life.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • The light rail after Pat's Run was filled with people returning home to get on with their Saturdays.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023

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