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Sentence Examples That which overfloweth is wasted, and that which falls on the ground is carried away. People in the world of health and medicine sometimes become carried away by the obvious rightness or righteousness of their cause. Survivors, alone or in pairs, carried away limp victims covered with blood and sand. In the melee, the mace that symbolizes the authority of the legislature was carried away and was later found in a lobby used by parliamentarians. Lieberman has drawn so much praise, in fact, that some skeptics are questioning whether the media are getting carried away. You may give too much away on the telephone, it is easy to get carried away and it is not always easy to remember exactly what was said. Television footage showed a scene of massive devastation, including badly mangled cars and injured people being carried away. I mentally scolded myself for being so foolish, for getting so carried away. But one can have too much distance or get carried away with the flights of fancy one's distance encourages. I had parents who never let me get carried away with my own sense of self-importance, and that was particularly the case with being asthmatic. Mom will get carried away too, caught up in the strong opinions and harsh views. As we survey these beauties and discuss their medicinal virtues, please do not get too carried away with notions of utilitarianism. Mr Martin mentions a young female carried away by a beggarwoman, and by her hired out as a prostitute. Even the emperor's throne, the bejeweled peacock throne of Shah Jahan, was packed on elephants and carried away to Persia. Our data indicate that much of the jasper was carried away from the quarry as potential flake tools, flake blanks, and bifaces. The microbes convert the hydrogen sulfide into odorless hydrogen sulfate, which is carried away by water trickling over the foam. It is too early to evaluate this research, and let us not get carried away by monocausal theories, but today I felt I learned something. Well firstly I can't escape the impression that the excitable kid is getting a bit carried away. She tried not to think that the body bag she had just seen carried away contained the lifeless corpse of someone that she had known. Sometimes we get carried away with a particular hype and there is not due consideration in the law. Show More Sentences Okay, I'm being narky but it is too easy for us all to get carried away by the moment. I get carried away with my attempts to link the most unrelated posts I can find. All unutilized heat rejected from the steam cylinder is carried away from the machine. But before we all get too carried away, the front page of today's newspaper urges caution. When she got carried away and started to show genuine anger and aggression, the Captain called her down. Although we'll take a lot of confidence out of the win, we still have to be realistic and not get too carried away. Look, I know I'm getting carried away, but it does the soul good to get carried away occasionally. It was the beginning of a long decline. He either didn't realise his own limitations or was carried away by success. In the rush to buy a property, it's easy to get carried away with a rising market and lose sight of financial reality. He had got carried away while attempting to salvage his business and his marriage. It looks like during the shortage every one was carried away and no one noticed that the vendors were breaking by-laws. We were just beginning to congratulate ourselves on a successful launch, when there was a huge crack, and the mast was carried away overboard! Sails were blown away, the mainmast was sprung, and the mast was carried away and lost, with everything attached to it. I saw the footage on LBC, and it took a strong stomach to watch the wounded carried away. This sequence is especially heartbreaking, as the screaming little girl is carried away to die. He was perhaps too carried away with the fevered pitch of the movement, taking it at too quick a clip. They are therefore carried away with the false propaganda spread by the chauvinists with the help of the electronic media. This is where compound interest calculators can be so useful, provided you don't get carried away with outlandish annual growth rates. Sometimes I think we get carried away in our part of the world with how big and physical we are. When the pods split open, hordes of seeds, each with their own fluffy parasail, are carried away on the breeze to a new home. Show More Sentences When the water vapor was carried away by the wind, it increased the global atmospheric humidity. For example, when an audience is carried away by a great performance of a symphony, it is as if their minds are united together. Like every other dotcom that was carried away by the hype, we got ahead of ourselves. The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm. Second, he emphasizes the importance of not being carried away by improbabilities viewed after the event anyway. There is a humility, too, an indication that he will not be carried away by the gusts of congratulation that have followed his elevation. For three days the plunderers worked unhindered and carried away their booty in front of running cameras. I have been sacrificed, transferred and conveyed so often, I know the feeling of being lifted and carried away. The paint coating the frame was peeling and a small flake was ripped off by a breeze and was carried away. It creates electrically charged particles called corona ions which are carried away from the cable by the wind. The Macedonian's mizzenmast was gone, her main and foretopmasts carried away, her main yard cut in two, and her ensign had disappeared. But before we get too carried away, it is worth noting that we are expecting some strong cross-currents over the coming months. It is hard not to be carried away by the madness of the Grand galop chromatique or by the arrogance of the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody. Either no one listens, or you get all carried away and proclaim yourselves as prophets, and it all ends in tears and fireballs. The endearments were repeated endlessly, carried away by the desert breeze. That is, have we all been carried away by a desire for some kind of entertaining political divertissement? The dunny man carried away the foul smelling night-soil from all of our outdoor conveniences. It's easy to get carried away with technology, and obviously there are limitations and drawbacks to a network. This may be advisable if you are likely to be carried away by the proceedings and bid over your upper limit. I was so taken by the kaleidoscope of colour, I got carried away sowing poppies. Show More Sentences Eventually the old ratbag was carried away screaming across the lawn by two secret service chaps. When books were read round class, and you got the belt if you got carried away and keeked at the next page before you were allowed to. Before we all get too carried away it has to be said that his announcement was guided as much by healthy realism as by altruism. However, let us not get carried away by this success and be realistic and pragmatic with our oil windfall. A few public men, carried away by the excitement, attempted to justify these killings. Anyway, prices were marked down to fifty, even seventy percent, and I got carried away and bought stuff, too. Or will we just keep buying regardless, carried away by the cheap thrill of it all? Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock. Ruppert claims to represent neither right nor left and flaunts his background as a police detective to refute accusations that he gets a bit carried away in his conclusions. However carried away you get, don't raise your arms above your head. But while the root of the problem is being tackled so ineffectively, can we not balance the argument so that on the way, we all don't get carried away? Most of us will see it as a truism but it is also a warning against the tendency of all of us, ethnobiologists are no exception, to get carried away. Narcissus have loosened up since I last saw them and it's difficult not to be carried away by the voice, the lush but powerful arrangements and the enormous tuneage. He told the audience he went to a party and got carried away. He is too grounded to be carried away by gusts of extreme declarations. His body withered and shriveled like a prune in the sun, and, as Juktis watched, he turned into dust and was carried away to drift on the winds for all of eternity. So we were given two characters, an opening line, a setting and scenario and told to write. I intended to write a very short story but, as usual, got carried away with myself. The downturn in fundraising activity is most pronounced among unicorns, whose valuations arguably got carried away relative to public market prices. The coach believes his team were carried away with the atmosphere. But you've got to keep the result in context and not get too carried away. Show More Sentences So, I went to a pick-your-own orchard and got a little carried away. He ran away with some quite sophisticated, intricate ideas and he got carried away with the intricacies of them and solving the technical problems that they led to. So although investors aren't getting carried away, the smart money is seeking to pick targets for predators, and place itself for a fresh round of consolidation. Okay, I think I'm getting a teensy bit carried away, but no more. Abroad we do battle with the world, and it is there we strain every nerve and sinew that we may stem a sea of troubles, and may not be carried away by the stream. Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future. When the wind comes from the north, the ice is carried away, sometimes as far as the horizon, but a south wind presses the ice up against the shore. But at this stage, he is either afraid or unable to get carried away by his thoughts. Senior executives believe investors will be carried away by exaggerated advertising and cash in on their pensions and homes in the hope of making a fast buck. Coal-oil-fired generators and atomic energy plants cause large amounts of waste heat which is carried away as hot water and cause thermal pollution or calefaction. Having said that let us not get carried away in hyperbole and rhetoric. The audience heaved a big sigh of relief as the play finally ended with the anticipated melodramatic scene, worsened by actors who got carried away by their own histrionics. You should not get carried away by success or get disappointed by failure. But then he got carried away and top-edged to long leg like a tailender. A glance revealed that the main topgallant mast had been carried away. Her fore and mizen topgallant masts had been carried away, the topgallant sails hung before the topsails, with the main topgallant masts standing, and all her sails set. He weighs 40 pounds, is 2 years old and sometimes gets carried away with his rough-housing. But I'm a shopaholic so it's a good job I'm late because I might have got carried away. It was nice of him to write a poem for his new girlfriend, but shooting a full-length film is getting carried away. Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated. Show More Sentences I know what many of you are thinking, that I'm getting carried away and highlighting a nonissue. I only meant to buy one new dress, but I got carried away and ended up with five. Occasionally the painter even seems to get carried away by the endless possibilities, fetishizing his medium, or his own virtuosity. New Hampshire author Alexander does not get carried away by the scope of the tale, which could easily have led to overwriting. Indeed, one might say Traub gets carried away by his admiration for the former secretary general. Many of the seeds remain on the surface where they is vulnerable to being eaten by birds or carried away on the wind. In some areas in the American corn belt, more than 50 percent of the original topsoil has been carried away within the last 100 years. They arose along the breakers' edge where the water surge piled up sediment, and behind which sediment was carried away by the breaking waves. The bomber carried away the mast tops and the aerial then crashed into the sea to the cheers of the rest of the convoy. A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current. Roman coins have been found in today's Venezuela, northwest of Brazil, presumably from ships that were carried away by storm in ancient times. When the upcurrent amount of sediment is less than the amount being carried away, erosion occurs. Domitian's body was carried away on a common bier and unceremoniously cremated by his nurse Phyllis. In the 1650s, it moved east of the Yenisey, where it carried away up to 80 percent of the Tungus and Yakut populations. If the victim recovered, the shrines were removed and carried away in a special paper chair or boat for burning. The cyanide is carried away in the processing water and the amounts produced in domestic consumption are too small to have environmental impact. For the ensuing six months Mr G. again reverted to his reactionless state, until in March 1970 he was carried away by a new wave of responses. The President urged the patriots not to be carried away, since this can lead to ultranationalism. This was a tommy gun of a game and quite a few players must have carried away the bullet scars. But a man like Mortimer Sturgis, with thirty-eight golfless years behind him, is swept off his feet. He is carried away. He loses all sense of proportion. Show More Sentences When addressing someone he could become carried away with the point he was seeking to make, and on one occasion, the King asked him to stop shaking his fist in his face. They found afterward to their regret that he was the finest little old poker player that ever struck the village and he carried away a suitcase of yellow-backed bills. According to the folklore, Arthur had Bedivere throw his sword Excalibur into Glaslyn, where Arthur's body was later placed in a boat to be carried away to Afallon. After each victorious campaign, Ayutthaya carried away a number of conquered people to its own territory, where they were assimilated and added to the labour force. As the seafloor spreads, magma wells up from the mantle, cools to form new basaltic crust on both sides of the ridge, and is carried away from it by seafloor spreading. Examples from Classical Literature The signal box up yonder in the breast of the storm was almost carried away. Immersed one day in samadhi on the bank of the Kaveri River, Sadasiva was seen to be carried away by a sudden flood. But the fact was that both hettie and Arthur were carried away by a rush of passion. But if we allow ourselves to be carried away by heightened emotions, or by wrought-up feelings, we may develop fanaticism. The scalper was carried away by the stream of fugitives, and disappeared with them. A musket-ball carried away a ratline above his head, just as he reached forward. Mother was told under threat of a whupping not to make any outcry when I was carried away. You can whoosh if you like, and get excited and carried away loving a woman, or humanity, or God. He is excitable, hotheaded, easily carried away, honest and straightforward like most people of his class. In short, they carried away all that was eatable and drinkable in the house. Often the unfertilized ovum is carried away with it, but the two things do not necessarily happen at the same time. All these people, like himself, grown wild and beastlike, were seized by the same dark wave and carried away like rubbish. Every morning their dung is carried away, and they are well curried and combed. One day thereafter Ket made a foray on the men of Ross, and carried away a spoil of cattle. He marched out against Damascus and took it, and carried away the inhabitants to Kir, and slew Rezin. Margaret Sinton came that night bringing a beautiful blue one in its place, and carried away the other to launder. It was then cracked off from the pontil and carried away, a finished liqueur-glass of the tiniest size, to be annealed. The latter were driven back, and the Persians made some prisoners, whom they carried away in great triumph to Erivan. In all these thinkings he was astray, carried away by prejudices which he was not strong enough to withstand. Vast portions of the mountain have already been carried away by the erosive forces of ice and running water. Show More Sentences Sail was made, but at the moment when she was rounding the point a squall struck her and carried away her main-topmast. She was tremendously emotional and impulsive, and might be carried away into error. The crew burst into a roar, even those who had favoured mazzard being carried away. The good female soul was carried away by a sympathy so uncourtly, and she gave herself up completely to her inborn fire. In despair he looked at her as she flew along, as if carried away by the blast. We captured an immense amount of these stores, a portion of which we carried away. How frantick are those louers which are carried away with the gaye glistering of the fine face? In another case, a ball carried away the inferior part of the glans but did not wound the urethra. By Shermans order, everything on the plantation movable or destructible was carried away next day, or destroyed. One of the boats which was towed behind the Saint-Jean Baptiste was carried away by the waves. Could that fountain pen have been carried away by the windstorm, too? The girls told us not to get carried away with everything because it is easy to end up abubble and lose touch. But in sorrow she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy. At length, carried away by impatience, I reprimanded him publicly. Tom is carried away by her baby face, and makes a fool of himself. And yet she was being carried away further and further every moment, while I gazed after her, aimlessly standing in the middle of the road. Many a chilblain I carried away from kneeling on those granite flags. They carried away the whole of the cuscus and part of the kangaroo. The dinners were served out and the dixies carried away, still in peace. Unfortunately, one Lincoln fan got a bit carried away and in the surge of delight following the fourth goal, snapped ligaments in his right knee. Show More Sentences The dishes she had left he carried away with an elegiac solemnity. Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. She was the woman who had carried away the book from longshore Jack. He must have carried away half of the gratuities they offered. But Jim, unfortunately, was so carried away by the novel experience of fatherhood that he kept buttonholing and annoying everyone. He knew that Sita had been carried away, but whither he knew not. And how, after having carried away that present, could he refuse ten thousand livres more to this generous noble? She carried away with her the sound of their voices and the touch of their cheeks. What was he doing, sitting there gleaming, carried away, soulful? No toys in this first chest remain, For all are carried away, In their old age, to join again In another small Meg's play. It was carried away, and as they were jesuits nothing was done. And 'member when he got carried away in the hamper by the laundryman? I asked, thinking that perhaps the log line had carried away. At length one of our shots struck her and carried away her main-topmast. Many trophies and relics were carried away as momentoes of the occasion. She felt herself seized and carried away by the omnipotence of truth. Did I have it carried away by seven flying dragons, or was it merely a trifling matter of turning it into a milk-white hind? The port shrouds of the foremast carried away at the chain-plates, and the fore-topmast leaned over drunkenly to starboard. One of the pointers, carried away by excitement, went up to him. The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. Show More Sentences And aiming a sudden shaft he shot so close to the Bishop's head that it carried away both his hat and the skull-cap which he always wore, leaving him quite bald. A few months later the three of them were down at the brook in the Gale Anstey woods to consider the rebuilding of a footbridge carried away by spring floods. It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. Don't get carried away by the newness and the hotness of this marketplace. All at once, carried away by its frightful overcharge, the Nautilus sank like a bullet under the waters, that is to say, it fell as if it was in a vacuum. I even found myself being so carried away that I was absentmindedly humming the Sky Blue song all weekend and smiling to myself like a village idiot. The next morning the lad felt hungry, and thought he would cut off a piece of the loaf he had carried away from the Giants' wedding feast, and eat it. Find more words! 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