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How To Use leave off In A Sentence

• At the same time, the governor's unconventional decision to leave office without completing a term raises questions about the viability of such a run -- and about the state of the GOP field, following revelations of extramarital affairs recently by two other potential contenders. Governor's Move Highlights GOP Divide
• To "revoke" a device we just leave off the copy of the media key encrypted with his secret key! Doom9's Forum
• I believe that if they saw me fearless, and coming among them for friendly purposes, they would leave off hooting; but the notion frightens granny, so I am a prisoner. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2
• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau 
• FDA can pass through the cell membrane whereupon intracellular esterases cleave off the diacetate group.
• For, on a time. as a man had loosed his tongue to missay of a bishop familiar with him, he rebuked him cruelly, and said that, he should leave off or raze away these verses, or go from the table. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
• I ever fall in love (for I'll _fall_ in love, else not go in at all) I shall leave off loving mother best of anybody in the world? The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
• Pete, I can't be fashed pulling up the figures, but, as most presidents (save Reagan) leave office after eight years in a general cloud of disappointment, I don't think these figures demonstrate anything except that nothing changes. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
• I have a vague memory that it took about eight months for him to leave office after Black Wednesday.
• It is time to leave off, his daughter tells him, it s time to burst forth like a butterfly.