get-at-able
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Some $3 trillion of get-at-able minerals are thought to lie under a country bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined, equivalent roughly to $1m for each of nearly 3m Mongolians.
From Economist • Oct. 9, 2014
And if the broken pieces had been get-at-able, he would have made me count them as a means of impressing on my mind the folly of needless exaggeration.
From The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland by Bowman, Isa
The delegates who went to Mr. Chappell seem to be amenable to the law and get-at-able.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
But if I were in there, and you and the other two were not get-at-able, what then?”
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
How I wished my Mr. Reginald Brace could have been anywhere get-at-able!
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver
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