carry off
Example Sentences
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If Lam had tried to carry off that amount of money in $100 bills, the prosecutor said, it would have weighed more than 2½ tons.
From Los Angeles Times
“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
They didn’t seem to notice or care that they were being carried off.
From Literature
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
