How to Use be done with in a Sentence

be done with

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  • The easy thing for my client would have been to write a check and be done with it.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Clamshell Sets and Reps The clamshell can be done with your bodyweight.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Brown asked for his thoughts on what should be done with the prisons.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • For stage 3a, surgery may be done with the intent of a cancer cure.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Maybe it can only be done with a word that’s just as hard to pin down.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • What goes on in the mind can be as vital to success as what can be done with the body.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The best part is that it can all be done with the click of a button—no finicky dials or levers.
    — Jenna Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Starbucks may not be done with its pup cups, but it is done with the metaverse.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Winston Churchill, for one, would have preferred to shoot the Nazi leaders and be done with it.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The same can be done with collard greens to even greater benefit.
    — Adrienne Cheatham, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • This can be done with an equation that subtracts the person’s age from 220.
    — Jason Sawyer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Adding to the intrigue, with a large, uniquely shaped green, there is a lot that can be done with pin locations on the 17th.
    — Drew Steiner, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Heather Rae El Moussa may not be done with kids after the birth of her first baby.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Hong’s team in South Korea has shown it can be done with a food as familiar as rice.
    — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • What used to take years of training and painstaking hours of work can now be done with only a few taps of a keyboard.
    — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And naturally, that needs to be done with a special tool.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As usual, it would be done with the hope of a better tomorrow at the expense of today.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Sarah Snook may be done with the Roys, but her own family is just getting started.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 May 2023
  • The last option is to be direct, which should be done with caution and assessment.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There’s so much more to be done with this combination of stories.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • It had not yet been retrieved, the officials said, but would likely be done with a crane or a winch from a vessel.
    — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Sure, there will be other checkpoints along the way, but what more needs to be said to pronounce this a raving success and be done with the whole process?
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • That said, shopping under the influence should be done with care.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And naturally there's work that has to be done with the infrastructure and things like that.
    — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Gillian Anderson may not be done with truth-hunting quite yet.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But Lyles wanted to have a double mastectomy, removal of both breasts, and be done with the process.
    — Ryan Michaels | The Birmingham Times, al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Christine Brown is happy to be done with games involving her heart.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • With luck, we’ll be done with new pandemic variants and can have meals like this in Los Angeles too.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • And the series will be done with the full cooperation of The Beatles and Apple Corp.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • It can also be done with Jeauveau, Dysport, Xeomin, and Daxxify.
    — Tori Crowther, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023

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