How to use "getting" in a sentence

Even on Monday evening, my housemates will just think I'm late getting back

She is getting married in the autumn

But my problems are getting worse every minute

I'm getting out of here

'It's getting very late!'

'I'm getting smaller and smaller!' After a short time, she was only 25 centimetres high.

'I'm getting taller and taller!' She looked down

'I'm getting smaller all the time!' she cried

'Oh, I'm getting much taller!' she cried

'I'm getting bigger again,' she thought.

'I'm getting bigger.'

'You're getting bigger too.'

'It's getting late.'

After several minutes, Bubba was getting really excited and saying, 'Good, good, good!' Then he asked, 'Where did you learn to play like that?'

After the first few weeks my leg was getting better, and one day I went down into the little town, to the fish market

I was just thinking of getting out of there and having some breakfast when the President said, 'Boy, is that your stomach making that noise?' So I said, 'Yes,' and the President said, 'Well, come on, boy, let's go and get something to eat!' And I followed him into the house, and a waiter got us some breakfast.

By the end of the next week, we were getting ten dollars a day

It was getting light and he could see that the lock on the cellar door was secure

It was a busy morning, with a lot of people already in the streets or getting up, and heavy traffic for the market

When you think it's getting dangerous, shoot one of these guns

A sound that he recognises; a sound that is getting nearer

After a few more minutes she feels the train stop and she is aware of the kids getting off.

"So they're just getting wet for no reason?" said Niki

"No, he's helping fix the equipment at the meat-growing laboratory, actually, and getting reasonable money for it

"Why would I mind you getting a special offer? It's cool."

"Sorry for getting angry

If the government finds out that messages are getting through the force field and passing across the city boundary, there could be big trouble."

But we're getting close."

'It's getting late, shall we go home?' I said

You are getting lazy without me to watch you.'

'I'll tell her we are getting married very soon

'They have been getting the rooms in the east wing ready for us

That evening, as I was getting ready for dinner, there was a knock at my bedroom door

'I'm getting excited already.'

'I think we ought to be getting ready.'

'Well, I must be getting along too,' he said

It was still getting lighter

'We're getting near to him!' says Natalie.

In a world of planned obsolescence, Vivienne took pleasure in getting long, full use out of everything that she bought, whether it was a toaster or an automobile

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

The air was getting warmer.

They would nod and smile woodenly and agree that it was a strange and frightening experience, but all the while, they would be thinking that poor old Vivienne was finally getting senile

Bally's, formerly the MGM Grand, was getting to be one of the older establishments on the continuously rejuvenating Las Vegas Strip, but it was still one of the most popular hotels in town, and on this last day of the year it was packed

These last few days, as your show's been getting ready to open, I've had the feeling you might finally realize you need something more in life, something a lot more emotionally satisfying than whatever it is you can get out of just producing stage shows."

You only give when you're sure of getting back twice as much

As she was getting up from the low chair, the terminal switched itself on.

Although a judicial purist might have disapproved, prosecutors and public defenders and tax attorneys and criminal lawyers and corporate counsel were mingling and getting pleasantly drunk with the judges before whom they argued cases most every week

Kennebeck listened with interest to Elliot's unofficial feeler about the chances of getting Danny's grave reopened

In silence, they walked back to the house, where the party was getting louder by the minute.

"What about the messages she's been getting?" Vince asked, still watching Elliot closely.

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

They were getting too far out of town

"It's getting warm in here again."

"We're getting some warm air already."

Again and again, we're getting these thirty-and forty-degree plunges in the air temperature in there

It must be getting warm in there already."

Still furious with his subordinates for letting Stryker and the woman escape again, he had difficulty getting to sleep

"It's not going to be easy getting into country like that," Elliot said.

Where were they getting their strength, their nerve, their endurance? It seemed as if they must have some advantage of which Alexander was not aware

"-the better chance we have of getting out alive."

That's what keeps it from getting boring."

He'd used up most of his physical reserves getting out of the lab reservation, and he was also beginning to feel some of the early symptoms of Wuhan-400

Because I was never in the room with both partners, getting a thoughtful response to a story note I'd given was impossible, because neither could speak for the other and could only promise to consult when next they met at the deathbed of whatever beloved person expired that week.

'I think that fly must have died long ago, Henri,' I said, getting up and walking to the door.

Henri had just proved that Charas seemed to be getting close to some kind of clue in this business with the flies.

Was she really insane? I had a strange, horrible feeling that somehow Charas was right - Helene was getting away with it!

Mars is getting colder, as one day our planet must too

They listened, knocked on the burnt metal with a rock and, getting no answer, they both decided that the men inside were either unconscious or dead.

Black figures in twos and threes moved forwards, stopped, watched, and moved again, getting closer and closer to the pit.

All around him - in the rooms below, in the houses on each side and across the road, and all across London - people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath of the coming storm of fear blew through the streets

He succeeded in getting some food at a pub.

Then they began to look for a chance of getting to the right side of the road

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

The Black Smoke moved slowly towards the river all through Monday morning, slowly getting nearer and nearer to us, coming at last along the road outside the house that hid us.

'Shut up!' I said, getting to my feet

I'm getting ready

I awoke to find that sad howling still in my ears: 'Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,' It was now getting dark, and after I had found some bread and cheese in the bar I walked on through the silent squares to Baker Street and so came at last to Regents Park

Already men, crying with joy, as I have heard, were getting onto trains to go to London

She heard Mercy having a bath, then getting ready to leave the house

And I'm not getting my car.'

Up on the roof, I was getting wet, but I had to hear their conversation to the end.

Laura was getting better

She helped many people in prison, and she stopped them from getting hurt by the prison workers

The first wave of feminism in the West was mostly about getting the vote

But the numbers are getting higher

In Japan, for example, the MeToo movement started small, but it is getting bigger