bumping off

Example Sentences

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So he has switched his party affiliation to independent and is now making a bid to stay on the council, even if it means bumping off a colleague.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

Mercurio - who also wrote Bodyguard, the most watched BBC drama since 2008 - is known for bumping off characters when you least expect it.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2019

The Dada imp’s word games and visual pranks were busily bumping off Picasso as the primary influence on the ’60s American avant-garde.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018

The killer Crock-Pot, from This Is Us, is not the first time a kitchen appliance has been complicit in bumping off a TV character.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2018

They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, e.g., when a snooker ball glances off another snooker ball.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon