Use "rid of" in a sentence

1. The reactor in the ship's engine might be used in some way to power the grid of a modest sized nation

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2. Very basic it was, but I didn’t miss any of the stuff in storage … I recall I made a decision to get rid of all the clutter once we got it all back, but you know how it is … you never get round to it, or else it has sentimental value and you can’t bring yourself to throw it out

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3. Third story: Late at night I watch a film on TV; there is a man who asks a woman to help him get rid of another, dangerous woman

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4. How do you get rid of those? She peered at the keyboard frantically reading the, to her, incomprehensible words

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5. Fortunately, Kara strenuously resisted this attempt to get rid of her as, when the small vehicle materialised, there was a letter addressed to Kara sitting in it

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6. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education

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7. consuming all but never getting rid of the waste

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8. He was convinced that if the tree was chopped down he could make real use of the land and be rid of the screaming rooks to boot

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9. Despite every good reason he could think of, however, his employer had no desire to be rid of the ancient tree

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10. Listen now boss, when it's sunset I'll begin the solemn rites asking Athena help us get rid of the looters

11. The gardener told the magician all about the thorns and how he just couldn‘t seem to get rid of the problem because the thorns kept on growing and how when he‘d said to himself in his head

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12. most lurid of our newspapers a story of tragedy and heartbreak

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13. rid of the ancient tree

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14. Took some persuading though and, in the end, I had to lie about Dave being in a meeting all day to get rid of him

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15. “I want to be rid of our trackers and able to move about without their prying eyes on us

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16. If in giving the Elders this plan helps them to succeed; then maybe I will be rid of the

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17. “I got rid of it

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18. 'The sooner you get rid of that flat of yours, Sarah, the better, I reckon

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19. ‘I’ve got rats and need to get rid of them

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20. While you're at it you can get rid of the van in the other barn

21. "I don't understand", Jock says, washing his mouth out with tea to get rid of the fur on his tongue

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22. She knew how he hated that horror, and could have seen it as a good chance to get rid of him, now that they were getting too close to the truth

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23. And get rid of that vague feeling that you ought to be doing something useful, like housework

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24. We had a day when the Salvation Army came to my house to pick up a lot of I wanted to get rid of

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25. To rid of the old

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26. For the most part, they had cleared the walkway of the abominations, but a few of them were proving more difficult to be rid of

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27. The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence

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28. If Brice is so smart, he should've known why the child's parents were so eager to be rid of him

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29. He had to get rid of them all

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30. "If one of us doesn't get rid of the other, both of us might stand trial for cloning

31. off on his fingers; ‘Getting rid of the Dominicans (who are

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32. the other to the hanging, only for getting rid of an

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33. seems that we cannot get rid of it

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34. rid of a monument of communist activists, would not

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35. peasant, glad to rid of her, because it was

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36. upper arm, “We'll be rid of these mosquitoes once and for

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37. The Justicars may be all about getting rid of the criminal organizations by any means necessary, but I remember their initial claims being more about protecting the citizens of Alataria, rather than being an anti-mob vigilante group

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38. You need to cleanse yourself and get rid of past pain

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39. In the very essence of all spiritual teaching is about getting rid of all

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40. Joe is briefly happy to be rid of her, but is wondering how he is going to be happy now that the satisfaction he expected from her turned out to be a false hope

41. If, in a year of scarcity, therefore, any of them should find that he had a good deal more corn upon hand than, at the current price, he could hope to dispose of before the end of the season, he would never think of keeping up this price to his own loss, and to the sole benefit of his rivals and competitors, but would immediately lower it, in order to get rid of his corn before the new crop began to come in

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42. Yogic teaching can, in the words of philosopher Alan Watts, help us “get rid of the hallucination that each one of us is a skin-encapsulated ego

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43. The title script was a hybrid of Western and Oriental text

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44. Bush has much evil to be rid of today

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45. I got rid of my television

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46. Rosemary shook the letter at him as if it was a nasty insect that had crawled up onto the bed and she wanted rid of it, now, disposed of, dead

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47. “Who the bloody hell have you got there I told you to get rid of them and instead you invite them in

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48. She was going to face them as cool as she could, get rid of Jack as fast as she could, and then leave

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49. “Oh so I se you got rid of him well I cant say as I blame you I mean trying to get his hand between your legs that would put you off but was that the only reason?” I gave her my best integrating smile when I had first started she looked a bit mad but now a grin came to her face as she replied

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50. “Thanks a lot mate you don’t know how much it means to me to get rid of that number”, I shrugged as him and his mate grinned form ear to ear

51. I was sure she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the robe, because he was so attached to it

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52. I shrugged out of my pack and got rid of a lot of the other weight I had been carrying

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53. Japanese rebel warlord in charge was intent on getting rid of all foreigners from Japanese soil, as he felt that the treaties were unfavorable to Japanese interests

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54. But remember, the prisons couldn’t cope with the numbers and were soon overflowing with inmates, so they needed a new way to get rid of criminals

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55. They’ll never get rid of me

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56. The complex reminded Gerrid of a cruise sub he’d been on once as a child

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57. The Gerrid of the past was a fading memory

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58. Raven shook his arm out to get rid of the tingles that ran down it

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59. If you wanted to get rid of it, that’s one thing, but doing it without even telling me

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60. To be prepared to die – even when failure seemed a reasonable possibility – didn't compute with conventional logic; the Gerrid of thirty-six years ago may well have considered such a plan insane

61. They can’t be that far off because I bet that the only way they will get rid of those diamonds is through your Farringdon Road jewellers

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62. ‘If you need a volunteer to test you time device – I'm the man for the job,’ Gerrid offered

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63. They were all going to be rid of the scourge of the army sooner than they had thought

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64. What do I say to get rid of this fellow?

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65. The important thing was to cover their tracks and get rid of any incriminating information

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66. He told Chris, the manager of all the yards in San Jose that he would have to get rid of me and replace me with another man since I didn‘t have a college education

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67. Tactics like above (all legal and just business as usual) more often than not leads to the original shareholder being bought out at a very fair price really quickly to get rid of him and his new biker mate

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68. After all it took a Civil War to get rid of slaves in America

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69. We still endure what you got rid of in 1774 and 1865

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70. Get rid of it and then half it again

71. Therefore it was not uncommon to find spoor (tracks) crossing the border and the trail leaver using backtracking techniques to get rid of us

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72. He had to get rid of his tie and chino pants if he ever wanted to fit in with the locals who only ever wore baggies or shorts, jeans and tee-shirts

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73. He had no other material possessions to get rid of

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74. Now that you’ve gotten rid of the icons you never use, you can automatically arrange the remaining icons

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75. But there is still something you need to get rid of – empty folders that are left behind by some applications even when the actual programs are gone

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76. She persuaded the United Nations representative to allow the Security Forces to get rid of them which they did

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77. The burden was too much for Zosia to bear, so she decided to get rid of him

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78. I obtained my visa rather quickly; probably the Poles wanted to get rid of me quickly

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79. If he wanted to get any information from the boy, he’d have to get rid of the weapon first, and without getting himself stabbed in the process

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80. The IV I could handle, but how the hell was I going to get rid of that?

81. Once he got rid of any loose ends that was

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82. For one thing, never at the voting booths of its history has the United States gotten rid of its president at the time of war, and for another, Kerry has not presented a coherent policy, guided by a definitive plan for the future: he seems to react to the news of the day like a weathervane reacts to the direction of the wind at any given time

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83. ’ Oh, stop worrying, I’m not giving up on you yet! I must have been out of my mind, but I said that I’d get rid of him before you

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84. Not only had she hired and trained two separate husband and wife management teams for her resorts New Mexico and Marathon Key, saw her father through his final days, laid him to rest beside her mother and dealt with all the nonsense that entailed, but she’d finally done it: all ties with the Northeast were severed, permanently! Her father’s apartment building she had bought so many years earlier was sold to Mike’s friend Kevin and, to completely break free of New England, she had also gotten rid of her last holdings on Martha’s Vineyard

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85. He really had to get rid of his old fashioned ideas about women

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86. There must be a way to get rid of this idiot fairy, but yelling at him was not it

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87. A few hours ago she wanted nothing more than to get rid of the “damn fairy” as she had called him

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88. And, if he had, whose fault would it have been: his own? What about the guy who brought it from a third of the way around the world, the guy who lived like a sultan in his own hotel and said, ‘the hell with the asshole if he’s stupid enough to use the stuff I provide, it’s his own fault’? Yeah, he thought, maybe I’d be in that box and that guy would be glad to be rid of me

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89. No sooner had I gotten rid of the witch doctor, when there was yet another visitor

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90. The winners got rid of the

91. Simon decided that he would have to get rid of this danger

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92. His reputation as a nasty Snaggle had traveled, and the Badgers really wanted rid of this one

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93. Then he vented it out, to get rid of excess CO2

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94. Getting rid of that cop smoked them out of their rat holes, and now they’re killing each other off

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95. After crawling through the traffic, he dropped Ingrid off outside the Tourist Information Centre

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96. From within it a grid of light beams criss-crossed the air in front of Hilderich, forming an image of the night sky, swirling and moving as if it might have seemed from someone standing on the firmament itself, bright spheres of light of various colors and sizes

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97. “Was not the one you were found with,” asked another, “the lowest of all the poor section that we had never been quite able to get rid of?”

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98. getting rid of the spirit whereas the unfortunate ones, who willingly or

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99. them and indicated that, in Arizona, nearly half of the Services plans for getting rid of hazardous fuels

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100. ” Then Bob took a deep breath and continued, “I was in remission for a few months but then this shit came back; the leukemia came back, so they’re trying to get rid of it again