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
I don't know that a graveyard is a very good place to go to get cheered up, but it seems the only get-at-able place where there are trees, and trees I must have.
From Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
He was six-and-thirty now, and had seen life pretty well, I can tell you, for there was not a get-at-able corner of the globe that he hadn't looked at through his eye-glass.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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
Look much at Dr. H.'s paper of directions—put my tickets in every conceivable place, that they may be get-at-able, and finish by losing them entirely.
From Hospital Sketches by Alcott, Louisa May
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