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set off quickly, usually with success
The freshman jumped off to a good start in his math class -
jump down from an elevated point
every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge
the widow leapt into the funeral pyre
the parachutist didn't want to jump
How To Use jump off In A Sentence
- I resisted the strong temptation to tell him to go jump off a cliff, and kept quiet.
- I jump off my bed and walk to my closet scanning the clothes, but not really looking, for my mind is recalling the events that happened earlier.
- In recent times I could not bring myself to jump off a platform to a trapeze even though I was in a full body harness and belayed by not one but two belayers.
- Most investors, once invested in an uptrend, will stay there looking for any weakness in the ride up, which is the indicator needed to jump off and take the profit.
- But if the Reb didn't realize that saying nasty things about gay people in New York City -- especially in the wake of a gay student's jump off the GW and an attack on some young gay men that sure sounds like a hate crime -- is not good strategy for a candidate already known for a distinct lack of polish, then Levin committed what even less devout Jews call a goyische kop. Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange
- Who is able to jump off the bench faster than a speeding bullet?
- The young waiters offset all this history with their effortless urban cool; one has sideburns you could ski-jump off.
- While he was rabbiting on about how we would jump off the cliffs at Barnageeragh, I slipped quietly away.
- I'd jump off the nearest building if I had to eat bear in semi-darkness all the year. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
- How can you jump off a fifty - foot ladder without getting hurt?
