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Example sentences for "get off"

  • Wait until the car stops before trying to get off.

  • A simple rule is to get off by holding a rod with the left hand and putting the right foot down first.

  • Do not try to move the broken bone trying to get off a sleeve or other part of the clothing.

  • If I was caught I could tell a romantic story about the girl who helped me get off.

  • She wanted to get off and go East; the train was bound West, but we were held up at a side-track, and I put her on board a gravel train locomotive.

  • It ought to pay you and your mother to help me get off.

  • I wish to get off on this side," came the answer, in tones that congealed that official.

  • When the bottom was reached and the woman was trying in vain to recover her breath and her feet, these faint words were borne to her ear: "Pardon me, madam, but you will have to get off here.

  • FEET BIG MAN (with a grouch)--"Will you be so kind as to get off my feet?

  • At first I wondered what was the matter, till they came nearer; and I found they were all alarmed, thinking I had attempted to get off.

  • How I was inclined to get off, while she was gone; but was ridiculously prevented by my foolish fears, etc.

  • If I get off, I shall never get on again," cried the commander.

  • All I can make out is that our friends are prisoners, but the why and the wherefore I don't understand; only as Desmond and Needham were evidently in a great hurry to get off to us, I'm afraid that they must be in some danger.

  • The old lady pressed us to stop and have some supper, but Mr Desmond was in a hurry to get off, and the vice-consul, I have a notion, wanted to be rid of us.

  • I've got to get off within an hour or so; and I want some petrol for my engine.

  • I'm rather sorry for you when you come down for petrol; you won't get off so easily as you did on the way out.

  • But I'm afraid you won't get off in two hours.

  • We shall have to hurry up if Smith is to get off in time.

  • If you don't get off my ship in five minutes I'll throw you over the rail.

  • If I can make arrangements to get off indefinitely, I'll go.

  • All day the three young people talked eagerly of the coming trip, and Shirley tried to get Dick to promise that he would go, whether he was able to get off or not.

  • Get off my ship, you maritime impostor, or I'll take a pistol to you.

  • Get off my ship, you murderin' pirates," Scraggs screamed.

  • Get off my ship, you lout, or I'll murder you.

  • Get off my boat and wait until you're invited before you come aboard again.

  • I warn you, if you ever address or in any way molest this lady again, you won't get off so easily.

  • I have no doubt that you are right, Master Cyril, but it goes mightily against the grain to think that a fellow like that is to get off with a whole skin.

  • I think in that way we need feel no uneasiness as to harm coming from our not telling Captain Dave, for it would be impossible for her to get off unnoticed.

  • We are all dead men; get off, in the devil's name, get off.

  • He tried to get off, behaving himself with a great deal of gallantry, and his friends did what they could to save him; but at last he fell into the golden queen's hands, and was carried off.

  • I don't want to go, but I can't find an excuse to get off," he said with vexation.

  • But let us get off, or we shall be meeting her on the doorstep.

  • So it was that the dog often used to get off by himself for a joyous race through the woods, where the dried leaves made such a jolly, rattling sound.

  • Oh, my friend he will of be right out," promised Ike Stein, rubbing his hands as though giving them a dry wash to get off some of the dirt.

  • It was a large bone, with very little meat on it, and what there was took a deal of gnawing to get off.

  • He must have noticed it, and tried to get off, for they said that the old farmer of Stone Farm compelled him with his gun to take her for his wife; and he was a hard old dog, who'd have shot a man down as soon as look at him.

  • By nine o'clock in the evening he had finished everything, and was able to get off; his blood was pulsing with excitement.

  • And who d'you think will help him to get off again if he's betrayed his own best friend?

  • I certainly would like to tell him where to get off.

  • Jump in and drive me around college and I'll get off at the gym.

  • That girl needed somebody to tell her where to get off, and only a man could do it.

  • And why," he bellowed, "should I get off here?

  • I don't know just at this minute where to get off.

  • We had ordained that the start should be made at eight o'clock; but the usual procrastinations had ensued and the men seemed totally unable to get off.

  • Then I'll get off too," said X, "I want to see inside that mosque.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get off" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could observe; deserves notice; feels like; free schools; get along; get away; get away from the; get her; get him; get hold; get home; get out; get over; get rid; get some; get them; get there; gets dark; getting down; getting hold; getting out; getting through; getting well; land called; sent forward; straight course