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be successful; achieve a goal
I managed to carry the box upstairs
The pianist negociated the difficult runs
She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it
She succeeded in persuading us all -
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 -
kill in large numbers
the plague wiped out an entire population
How To Use carry off In A Sentence
- As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
- I. unsōfte þonan feorh oð-ferede, 2142. of-ferian, _to carry off, to take away, to tear away_: pret. ōðer swylc ūt offerede, _took away another such_ (sc. fifteen), 1584. fetel-hilt, st. n., _sword-hilt_, with the gold chains fastened to it: acc. Beowulf
- It is also proof that the simplest and most fundamental of tasks are the most difficult to carry off.
- Some climbed the masts to unrig her, others rushed into the hold to get out the cargo, and numbers hurried to the cabin to carry off the lighter articles which it contained. Old Jack
- Among the zoological delights that awaited them according to him were the dagger-tooth: a 120 kilo, furred predator of the mountains; the greater snowbird with a three-meter wingspread and talons that could carry off a full-grown Klingon; plus a host of uncatalogued amphibians that made the marshes acutely inhospitable. Pawns and Symbols
- The latter was fiercely jealous, and if Parsons showed obvious affection toward someone, Patsy howled as though she were calling upon all her lupine ancestors to come forth and carry off the intruder.
- Since I am not ready to rule out anything; even the preposterous idea that a pismire may indeed carry off a saw log; I would not absolutely rule out some general correlation between skin color and intelligence. The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L
- Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
- The object of the process called osmosis is to carry off these salts. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883
- That they will never capture or carry off from the settlements white women or children.
