Sentence examples for getting at i from inspiring English sources

So trying to understand what Weber is getting at, I came to the conclusion that for Weber power is the dependent variable.

What Dame Helen was getting at, I think, was the fact that the Bard's works - the muscular language and the exciting plots - do not deserve the reputation they have for being boring.

When Breitweiser wouldn't be pacified by evasive answers, the senior agent parried, "What are you getting at?" "I think you had open investigations before September 11 on some of the people responsible for the terrorist attacks," she said.

What Hunee's getting at, I think, is the kind of default setting most of us revert to when trying to convert the myriad lived-experiences of a night in a nightclub into the rigid fixity of language.

What I'm getting at is: I have latent paternal powers.

Get what I am getting at when I talk about a ripple effect?

"But the more I roamed around, the more irritated I got at what I saw.

I was trying to get at something — I didn't know what until it was manifest".

That reads coy, or even fey, but it gets at what I admire about this book.

What am I getting at?

So what am I getting at here?