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vb. (present participle of get out English)
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Getting Out is a play by Marsha Norman. The play was produced at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre in October 1978 and then Off-Broadway in May 1979. The play concerns a female prisoner just released from prison, who returns to her home in Kentucky. Although she tries to have a normal life, her past experiences keep intruding.
Usage examples of "getting out".
The temperature was already pushing up into the eighties and most people would have been delighted at getting out into the country on such a marvellous day.
And just like getting out of bed in the first place that morning, it was as hard as she had ever known it to be.
I have a chance to get out of things, I may even be getting out of everything.
By the way, my lawyer thinks I've got a real good chance of getting out on appeal.
I said, flustered, and trying to hide it by opening the fridge and getting out some more Coke.
I had felt for a long time that I was getting out of touch with Rita, that she had other confidants.
This theory of getting out of stale merchandise and into fresh positions certainly can be applied to the stock market.
The prospect of it frightened her so thoroughly, that, with a mixture of true girlish perverseness and folly, she resolved on getting out of the house and proceeding directly by the stage to her friends, the Clarkes.
That meant getting out of his bunk, finding his tool kit, shutting down his receiving and recording equipment-it meant work.
If you were too stubborn about holding on you might not recognize when getting out was your only viable option.