Read full poem →You’d best be off to! There, put your mug down!
Now come and get into your nighty-gown.
Ah, you sweet thing! Well, kiss your mother then!
Dictionary Entry
To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
In a Sentence
“She got into the car.”
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Poetry examples for “get into”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →is heaped with human eyes. She cracks off the whites and throws them away.
They ricochet upon the roof, and get into the gutters, and bounce
over the edge and disappear. But she is here, quietly sitting
Read full poem →And tap! Another. Tap! Tap! Tap! The shells ricochet upon the roof,
and get into the gutters, and bounce over the edge and disappear.
Read full poem →By strangeness which, the more they mark,
The more men get into the dark.
The marvel, by familiar life,
Read full poem →spoilt by his parents," meaning, of course, the Allans. They "allowed
him an extravagant amount of pocket-money, which enabled him to get into
all manner of mischief. Still I liked the boy," added the tutor, "but,
Read full poem →Behind us, did you say?—oh! ah!—I perceive. My friend, it is well
that you spoke in time. Let us get into a place of safety as soon
as possible. Here!—let us conceal ourselves in the arch of this
Read full poem →“Now you little ones get into this sack and I will
roll you down the hill, so you can see how fine it is.”
Read full poem →the English, and finding, that they could not with safety attempt to
get into their own harbours even by that circuitous route, had taken
shelter in the bay of Bergen. The earl of Sandwich, who now commanded
Read full poem →He knows what he can do, or he wouldn't try.
Get into bed I say, and get some rest.
He won't come back, and if he telephones,