carry off
Example Sentences
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As anyone who has witnessed an ant carry off food from a picnic knows, insects are far stronger than their puny size suggests.
From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023
I grew preoccupied with the possibility that the police might barge into the bureau one day and carry off my computers and papers.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
The stuff that was too heavy to carry off — large silver pieces and fancy luggage — was left behind when Spaulding vanished.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Ekeler ended three of the drives with TDs, and put Los Angeles on top 7-3 with a 6-yard carry off left tackle.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2021
Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
