Example sentences for: get-together

How can you use “get-together” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Reliable Source's item about an election day get-together of old pols includes this quote from one of them: "If a bomb went off in this place, 50 percent of the country's known supply of [equine droppings] would be destroyed."

  • The coverage notes the two largest speed bumps for the get-together: Viacom owns half of UPN, and current federal rules prevent a company from owning two broadcast networks.

  • Recently I was editing a manuscript of a dictionary in which the lexicographer labeled irregardless an illiteracy, and I suggested that a less critical, more clinical term might be nonstandard . Readers might disagree, but I felt that regardless is more, so to speak, in the public domain than an expression like tête-à-tête , which one might classify as an “intellectualism” and, certainly, a more pretentious term than get-together or meeting . If one is going to be pretentious, one ought to get his pretences properly in a row.

  • But the prestigious Israeli daily Ha'aretz was much more cautious, with a front-page headline saying only that "Blair makes some headway in brokering peace get-together."

  • The WP says today's broadcast of "Martha Stewart Living" was supposed to be a lunch get-together with Bill Clinton the hostess had taped back in June.


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