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remove oneself from an association with or participation in
She left her position with the Red Cross
after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
She wants to leave
He left the Senate after two terms
The teenager left home
How To Use pull up stakes In A Sentence
- There is no rundale in Norway; and when the cadets see that there is no room for them they quietly "pull up stakes," and go forth to seek a new home, no matter where. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
- We're going to pull up stakes and move to Montana.
- The reason he wrote the word down was because he was trying to convince other Englishmen to pull up stakes in the old country and help swell the European population in the settlement.
- To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.
- We're going to pull up stakes and move to Montana.
