Sentence examples for thing of getting from inspiring English sources

"We should celebrate the wonderful thing of getting old.

That's a thing of getting older anyway; we're all on this conveyor belt and dropping off the end of it.

"Personal" memories of early childhood are one thing – of getting lost, say, and the fear that goes with it – but memories of a public event are different.

My thing of getting him off the world into hell was just so I could do these stories where he rambles around.

So, I did the classic thing of getting terribly embarrassed, and saying, 'I think I'd better be going, man,' and trying to look as though I was on my way to something much better.

Eventually, however, Jim calls me in and, very reluctantly, I have to abandon the magical nocturnal world and do that practical and ungainly thing of getting out of a wobbly wet kayak.

I had visions of a "real boyfriend," of nonchalantly eating food with friends, of trying new things, of getting married, of having a family.

"It's a matter of getting things going.

As clubface meets ball, a wag in the crowd does the God-bless-Merica thing of GET IN THE HOLE.

If you do any of these things, your chances of getting permission drop to almost zero.

Without him, things kind of get lost.