get off

How to use get off in a sentence

• Arriving there the Pilot turns the Aeroplane in order to face the wind and thus secure a quick "get-off."

  The Aeroplane Speaks | H. Barber

• In the get-off Chainlightning took the lead and gave a marvelous exhibition of speed.

  Eneas Africanus | Harry Stillwell Edwards

• I often heard patients ask attendants if they could go home, "Ask the Doctor," was the get-off.

  Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States | Moses Swan