put out of the way
Example Sentences
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They are significant only because two English children are sent to their home for breakfast while a sick pet is put out of the way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherefore Susan was put out of the way of further harm.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
No reason on earth was there either why he should have been put out of the way.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
To be sure, he might return to Selawik unless entirely put out of the way, but that risk would have to be borne.
From The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
But they could not understand why Herr Major had gone to the trouble to have the prisoner sent after him to Tirlemont, instead of having him put out of the way without further delay.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
