1. To flee vice is the begnning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. 

2. Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse. 

3. Radicals were jubilant at getting rid of him.

4. It is difficult to get rid of insects.

5. You must rid yourself of this gloomy mood.

6. Are you trying to get rid of me?

7. Try to get rid of your nasty cold.

8. The regime got rid of most of its opponents.

9. I can't get rid of the idea.

10. We strongly advise you to rid yourself of the bad habit of smoking.

11. I began to suspect they were trying to get rid of me.

12. He was a boring nuisance! I'm glad to be rid of him.

13. He was a nuisance and we're all well rid of him .

14. A young man attached himself to me at the party and I couldn't get rid of him.

15. He shook the blankets vigorously to get rid of the dust.

16. I didn't enjoy marking those papers and I was glad to be rid of them.

17. The mother wanted her little son to get rid of the bad habit of picking at his food.

18. be rid of sb/sth to be free of sb/sth that has been annoying you or that you do not want: She wanted to be rid of her parents and their authority.

19. He persisted in obtruding himself despite our efforts to get rid of him.

20. It's time we got rid of all these old toys.

21. Our forests will no longer be ridded with anti-natural waste.