drawing off

How To Use drawing off In A Sentence

• This was only a shakedown cruise which might pay the added dividends of dislocating our shipping and drawing off our patrols. THE LONELY SEA
• A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building.
• General Heron reports that the two battalions under your command fought with extraordinary steadiness, and repulsed all the attempts of his cavalry to break them; and finally succeeded in drawing off to the mountains, with the exception of the two companies that formed the rear guard. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
• A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building.
• That's where my holidays were spent, playing in the drawing offices and with the masons and glaziers.
• That's where my holidays were spent, playing in the drawing offices and with the masons and glaziers.
• The usual treatments are surgery or drawing off the fluid in the cyst with a needle. The Sun
• The company has managed to thread a long, thin tube into the broken pipe, but that is only drawing off a fraction of the flow.
• I knew what was happening as well as if I was seeing it - the Company riders, out-sabred, would be drawing off, and sure enough presently the Pathans came down the nullah in good order, clustered round Damodar and the Rani's women; among the last to come was Lakshmibai. Fiancée
• The photographers from the drawing office came in with the news which had just been broadcast on the radio.