How to Use get across in a Sentence

get across

verb

• That’s the kind of drive to help a team get across the line.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 10 June 2019
• The deeper the edge, the stronger the lean, and the more speed and flow the skater will get across the ice.
  — Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
• The odds of getting across to the U.S. no longer seem promising.
  — Dallas News, 29 June 2019
• Most of the West still remained no more than a place to get across.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• On final drive, goal was to get across the 35-yard line.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2019
• Works hard to get across his man’s face in the running game.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021
• Even if the message doesn’t get across, none of that stuff will go to waste.
  — Molly Quell, Popular Science, 6 Jan. 2020
• At 94, the Louisville native still hasn't stopped trying to get across the ocean.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 Dec. 2019
• Woody seems a pretty great choice to get across that sort of vibe.
  — Jeff Vrabel, Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2017
• Well, both parties have to want to get across the finish line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• That means two years of using 16th or 38th streets to get across the river.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2022
• Find your groove leading up to the Queensboro Bridge and then get across it as well.
  — Greg McMillan, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2019
• But drivers didn’t have to have a cool vintage car to get across.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Now, Russians opposed to the war can’t get across the U.S. border.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
• There are thousands who’ve parked to the east, and there’s a chance for the swift and alert to get across before the rest of the convoy gets there.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the end, Federer just couldn’t quite get across the finish line.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 14 July 2019
• His goal is to get across the country to the American embassy to try and clear his name.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Aug. 2021
• His days are longer than back home with an hour-long bus ride needed to get across town to and from school.
  — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Thousands of people showed up at the Berlin Wall, trying to get across.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Before the squadron even got across the Atlantic Ocean, though, typhus hit.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Bridge, like Brady was trying to get across, is more polite.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 19 Feb. 2023
• He has been known for the spectacular saves, to be able to get across the crease for highlight-reel saves.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• Police say the man had attempted to get across the busy highway.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2020
• The only way to get across the river and head towards Mobile some 30 miles north was by boat.
  — Roy S. Johnson, AL.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• That's the kind of message that CLF is trying to get across here in the outskirts of Bakersfield.
  — Maeve Reston, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• Another option is to use a kite to get across the river.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 15 Feb. 2021
• There's no guarantee that the vaccine will get across the finish line.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
• In the meantime, Biden needs first to get across the finish line, and last night did nothing to stop his momentum.
  — David Faris, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2020
• How did escaped tortoise Frankie get across Foothill Drive alive?
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
• One man even contrived somehow to get across while still in iron fetters.
  — Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024