Sentence examples for getting the gist from inspiring English sources

First love sucks and Sophie Webster from Coronation Street is getting the gist.

When Ms. Judd apologized for the attenuated effort at getting the gist of the opinion, Mr. Jennings stopped her.

"How's that song go?" Royal, now 85, said in 2005, getting the gist of the Bob Dylan '60s anthem.

Paddy, getting the gist of it, quoted poetry in an ironic voice: " 'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.' " "Signor Keats, I do believe," Nigel said.

Often when reading Gertrude Stein, I have the sense I'm getting the gist and I ride along a while in good faith, then all at once she switches tracks and there I'm left standing, as it were, at the station.

Wednesday night and throughout Thursday, Mr. Michaels exchanged e-mails with Mr. Downey, getting the gist of his idea that Mr. Obama would be distracted by the fact that he had forgotten to buy his wife an anniversary present.

O.K. Got the gist.

I got the gist.

But he got the gist.

But you get the gist.

"Can you get the gist?