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How to use off in a sentence

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Mickey now says that once he has paid off his debts, he will try to lose all the weight and re-enter Hollywood through the back door.
Use a hinged damper weather hood to prevent backdraft and place it at least 12 inches off the ground.
The tasting room has a glorious view of shining Lake Mendocino, set off by the dusty chaparral all around.
The front part is used for carving the lines and the back end for scratching off whole areas.
The fishing on all of the islands seems best in the summer months, peaking and then tailing off before the back end of the season.
Once changed we set off over the fell with the rain thankfully absent for the time being.
Food was scarce and money flooded off the presses. 476 million rubles were printed in April, one billion in July.
In these efforts, and much more, our Congress has signed off on massive, tectonic legislation without so much as a moment's pause.
The variations cluster around the theme like chapels leading off a chancel.
It feels much more like the scattergun frenzy of a man with things he wants off his chest.
A further discovery is that some abattoirs strip the back fat off the carcass before weighing it and this is definitely not an approved practice.
It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view.
If you set a snowball off down a hill it will gather speed and momentum and that's what's happened here.
Under the Ottomans they lived in tekkes or lodges, which were similar in nature to monasteries, and lived off alms.
He said that when he arrived on the scene at 2.46 pm a crowd of youths had gathered around the southern edge of the lagoon, off Northfield Lane.
It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone.
The Englishman is the backmarker in the field, running off three metres in the famous 110m handicap sprint.
The air ambulance, which was already in the area, was first on the scene and landed on the road after police closed it off.
Morning at the girls apartment came with a hurried rush of alarm clocks going off, hair being dried, and granola bars being scarfed down.
The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But as soon as the attack on the Bushmen begins, we will, all of us, make off as fast as we can southwards.
Here, professor, throw off that coat and nglig manner, and grasp this spade.
Whether this was sound law or not I cannot say, but it gave me the opportunity to let Sergeant Kingston off easily.
We complied, and they rode off southwards, Abu Dahook returning to his camp.
This seed is then put through a huller which takes off the outside hull or thick skin.
On spaceman's Row, Roger found the new freedom from discipline enjoyable at first, but now the novelty had worn off.
But on the evening of the third day the house detective tipped Joe off that his prey was leaving in the morning.
Isobel went off to make coffee in the portable galley in the rear of the second hovercraft.
The Huambo people, male and female, enrich their hair with coral beads in a way that sets it off with much effect.
It was a glorious day, with a cloudy sky, and the wind blew fresh off the southern ocean.
The songful satirical line spouted in him, to be flung at his girl, as he ran upstairs to the boudoir off the drawing-room.
As they moved off, the huguenots could count that there were twenty-five men in each section.
And, with a wave of his sombrero, Poke Stover rode off as rapidly as he had come.
Maybe he was right enough, if the feller getting off had got any horse sense.
I can get a margin off most any man in the West on a horse-trade, but I'd look shy about doing a trade with him.
They pushed off, scrambling into the boat, and we sent more silent, hot pepper after the legs that dallied.
She sotted her hair up anyhow, took off her clothes, and crept to bed, almost as if she were creeping to her tomb.
Then she realized that Kennicott had forgotten to turn off the houselights.
Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the howff and escape them.
So she did off hosen and shoon, and I led her by the hand, and it took her but up to mid-leg.
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