get the better of

How To Use get the better of In A Sentence

• ‘I'll play you for it,’ Danny told him, allowing her anger and rioting emotions to get the better of her.
• As December passed by, and the term drew to a close, Patty's impatience began almost to get the better of her. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life
• Instead of breathtaking touchdown passes, there were too many errors, penalties and incomplete passes as conditions seemed to get the better of the teams. Times, Sunday Times
• He lacks strategy and good judgment, and his quick temper and impetuosity too often get the better of him.
• Instead of breathtaking touchdown passes, there were too many errors, penalties and incomplete passes as conditions seemed to get the better of the teams. Times, Sunday Times
• She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.
• But there are times when he seems unable to: when his emotional reactions get the better of him, and suffuse his public rhetoric on foreign affairs and infuse his specific foreign policies. Brent E. Sasley: The Passions of Erdoğan
• The temptation to let the heady ecstasy of power get the better of you is self-evident.
• You get the better of that fellow.
• But after a few days, boredom, hunger pangs and cravings get the better of you. The Sun