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How to use the word get-up in a Sentence?

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Some days are not-so-good days where I can’t get up out of bed, some days are better than others where I’m able to get out of bed and make it to my appointments. But from going through what I’ve gone through, I try to stay positive.

Abigail Zwerner

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1 year ago

Some days are not so good days where I can’t get up out of bed.

Abigail Zwerner

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1 year ago

I’ve been doing OK. It’s been challenging, some days are not so good days where I can’t get up out of bed.

Abigail Zwerner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need my phone for an alarm in the morning, and it helps me go to sleep at night, get up and get your iPod and listen to some music and get a regular alarm clock.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I normally don’t get up on a pedestal and sound the alarm, but this is something that I think we need to be looking at carefully.

Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even when you can’t move your lower body and actually get up from sitting, actively taking deep breaths that use your diaphragm and move your ribs, is beneficial for your posture and overall health, the overall message is to move in as many ways that are possible based on your abilities.

Dana Santas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

‘When you get up there, let him know that,’.

Wayne Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here's the thing: you can stay [under my desk] for now, but when it comes time for voting you're going to have to get up.

Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

First, there was a strong blow to the back. I fell, couldn't get up, couldn't move, people ran over and lifted me up. I couldn't even walk. There was a lot of blood.

Serhii Sorokopud

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Big Time Rush to the rescue, i’m safe, we cool. We cool. It was just wild. I was in the green room when they were like, everyone was like – get up! It was wild. It was a moment.

Craig Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's hard to get in a race car and not drive as fast you possibly can. That was the goal when I got over here: get acclimated, get up to speed and see what I could do in the race car, it was super special to drive, it handled beautifully, I was able to make some setup adjustments in the afternoon and get it more to my liking. But yeah, you always want to show how fast you can drive a race car no matter what the circumstances are.

Colton Herta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was in the bed, in the cot, when they opened the door because it's one o'clock and about four or five guys yelling: 'Bill, get up. You're going home,'.

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The goal is to use your own body weight with no equipment … We’re trying to eliminate the excuse factor so that people can come into a program and conquer it. I think that creates self-confidence, as well as the desire to want to get up and do it again.

Brooke Burke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've sung a ton of records and when we get up on stage and all the lights go out, I have to admit that I am completely blinded by the audience because that audience is what's telling me what to do, i'm a puppet and a lot of people think that's an insult, but it's not. I'm a puppet to what the audience wants to hear.

Doug Gray

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was numb. I couldn't move and then I said :' You've got to get up now,'.

Cherelle Griner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just said,' I can't shake this depression. I just feel so like I can't get up from playing spider solitaire,' he says,' I've got just the thing a prescription for you.' Oh, goody, one more pill.

Marjorie Schurman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're made aware [ of our energy costs ] nearly each and every day, when we get up until we get out.

Georg Geier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[G]as prices are $4 or $5 in some places and likely to get up into $6, $7, $8. We are crippling American energy production. Just terrible decisions on every front, and the American people are ready to make a change.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Morning coffee, get up on news and get out and do something I'm fortunate to do, i'm fortunate to be able to work on my garden and there are these kinds of chores that you've put off for years.

Anthony Edwards

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Grab a bucket and mop, scrub the bottom and top, there's nothing so clean, as my burger machine, You deserve a break today so get up and get away at McDonalds!

Ronald Mc Donald

added by RonaldMcDonald
2 years ago

Grab a bucket and mop, scrub the bottom and top, there's nothing so clean, as my burger machine, You deserve a break today so get up and get away at McDonalds!

Ronald Mc Donald

added by RonaldMcDonald
2 years ago

We were very protective of each other. We made a pact, in the very beginning, that we would never be treated with disrespect by all the male musicians in the community, and we really stuck to it. I think we did the pinky swear thing that, if we ever feel like we're being treated like that, we would just get up and walk out — and we did. We would just say.

Stevie Nicks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I get up every morning at 5 a.m. to make everyone in my home a prepared lunch and breakfast, most mornings I even start dinner in the Crockpot, so it can be done by dinner.

Tiffany Keene

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thank you. I enforce Mario to continue to do his work, when he is sleeping, get up do your work. When he watching Netflix, get up do your work. Try to get to school on time. Get off the phone. Get off FaceTime. Yeah. Just keep redirecting.

Zipporah Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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