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communicate successfully
I couldn't get across the message
He put over the idea very well -
become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
she was penetrated with sorrow
It dawned on him that she had betrayed him -
travel across or pass over
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
How To Use get across In A Sentence
- Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
- Maybe the bisection would leave a piece of his land isolated and far from any overpass, and how, the farmer wanted to know, was he supposed to get across that highway with a tractor? Interstate 69
- I think that's a really important message that we need to get across to people, because whenever you say energy conservation, they immediately think turning off their heaters and not being warm and stuff.
- The lights changed to red before I could get across.
- To get across town, you can take the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central.
- Because, honestly, the real world we live in and which has preceded us historically (and prehistorically as far as that goes) is far more complex than what we can get across on the page or "invent. "An Accurate Understanding": Talking About Social Structures in Worldbuilding
- There's a sheer cliff not far from that hut and a Tyrolean, using carabiner and prusik, is needed to get across to a rock, at the foot of which is the burrow of the rare lesser hairless meerkat. [my ideal holiday] by walter mitty esq.
- I've been trying to get across that they're not the immortal people we think they are. The Sun
- Did your speech get across to the crowd?
- Last year, 409 immigrants died trying to get across - a sevenfold increase since 1995.
