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    Use "rid of" in a sentence

    rid of example sentences

    rid of


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


    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


    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


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


    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


    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


    7. consuming all but never getting rid of the waste


    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


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


    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


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


    13. rid of the ancient tree


    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


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


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


    17. “I got rid of it


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


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


    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


    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


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


    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


    25. To rid of the old


    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


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


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


    29. He had to get rid of them all


    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


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


    33. seems that we cannot get rid of it


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


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


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


    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


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


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


    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


    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


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


    44. Bush has much evil to be rid of today


    45. I got rid of my television


    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


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


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


    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


    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














































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