carry off
Example Sentences
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“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”
From Literature
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They didn’t seem to notice or care that they were being carried off.
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Now we have the vanishing of Nancy Guthrie, the octogenarian mother of a TV news personality, evidently carried off from her Arizona home into … a void.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1868 the Royal Navy carried off two statues, now in the British Museum.
But the image of Davidson being carried off the floor late was a chilling reminder of how quickly things can change — and how much the Trojans need their star freshman.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.