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remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
I'll take you away on a holiday
Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
The car carried us off to the meeting
How To Use carry away In A Sentence
- Where necessary to render harmless and carry away noxious or flammable gases, line brattice or other approved methods of ventilation shall be used so as to properly ventilate the face.
- Feloniously and Pyratically surprise, seise and take a Brigantine named ----, [11] One Moor Master, and belonging to His said Majesties good subjects, and out of Her then and there in manner as aforesd. did take and Carry away Cloths and Provisions of the Value of Two Hundred pounds. Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
- A nearby culvert, meant to carry away the sewage, is totally damaged.
- With these they were something perswaded, and prevailed upon by the same person, to permit him to carry away all that were left undefaced, by which means, the writings the church hath now came to be preserved. The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
- More than a moving vehicle to carry away natural deposits of rock and shale, the river takes with it whatever it is given.
- The carts were continually employed in going and returning to carry away the dead carcasses, of which there were that day above four thousand. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
- And it is the nature of these interactions that generate the photons and/or phonons that carry away energy unless the system is adiabatically enclosed; in which case those photons are returned to the system and transfer their energy back into the matter. Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb
- ‘We are very religious,’ he said as he folded his threadbare deckchair and prepared to carry away their bulging bag of oddments.
- A thermoelectric material must allow electrons to flow freely, so they can carry away heat energy.
- The shrewmice however and the hawks they carry away to the city of Buto, and the ibises to Hermopolis; the bears (which are not commonly seen) and the wolves, not much larger in size than foxes, they bury on the spot where they are found lying. An Account of Egypt
