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
Would any man sit down there and shiver in idleness, when the reachable glory of Polar victory was on one side and the get-at-able gastronomic joy of game land on the other?
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
Fence every swallow of get-at-able water to be found on my range this time of year, and you won’t have to dig a posthole off of land I hold in fee simple.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George
Modern instructive works by such masters as Sevčik, Eberhardt and others have made technical problems more clearly and concisely get-at-able than did the older methods.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman
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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