How to Use get away with in a Sentence

get away with

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  • Try to get away with writing a bare-bones self-description, and the app will prompt you to try harder.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026
  • Also, the perpetrators got away with their crime by simply acting like tourists.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 27 July 2026
  • Perhaps what did the most to turn the public against steroids was the sense that some athletes were breaking the rules and getting away with it.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • When a top performer gets away with toxic behavior because their numbers are good, that is your culture.
    — Monte Wyatt, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Being unbelievably wealthy comes with powerful perks — like getting away with being too cheap to pay people the money they’re owed.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
  • After pulling a knife on the cashier, Lopez was able to get away with $300, according to a criminal complaint.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • Sure enough, Day 1 of Wimbledon was defined to some extent by the slips — and those players who got away with them, and those who didn’t.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Gardeners in areas with mild winters can also get away with dividing and transplanting in the fall once the summer heat has subsided.
    — The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The person who reads a stack of newsletters before breakfast gets treated as diligent, and the person who scrolls for an hour and calls it research gets away with it entirely.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • For me, the future is a future where more cities look like San Francisco, where crime is incredibly hard to get away with—so hard that people just choose not to do it.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 29 July 2026
  • In Elizabeth Meriwether’s new thriller series, Furious, as in our world, girls and women are bought, sold, traded, and used by men who get away with it.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 July 2026
  • The public-shaming impulse has been, at times, a reaction to years of bad behavior—particularly among men accustomed to getting away with a lot and facing very few repercussions.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • Every shot DeChambeau takes is recorded by cameras, whereas players who aren't subject to that level of scrutiny might be able to get away with a bit of say, adjustment, to the conditions around them.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
  • While speaking to Access Hollywood in July 2019, the Hobbs & Shaw actor admitted that his then-2-year-old son was able to get away with more with him rather than his mom.
    — Katie Mannion, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • With goals from Roberto Piccoli and Moise Kean on either side of the half time whistle, however, the Italians got away with a draw from a Madrid side that lacked a number of its World Cup stars.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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