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Example sentences for "off the"

  • So they took the ropes and all lent a hand to carry this out, and before Gunnar was aware of it, they had pulled the whole roof off the hall.

  • An island in the Baltic, off the coast of Esthonia.

  • I would rather that thou shouldst cast off the faith, and see what follows then.

  • I spoke to the library about it, and they took it off the shelves.

  • The dollar-sign has chased the crucifix clean off the map.

  • How much would that tot to off the porter in the month?

  • If they were they'd walk me off the face of the bloody globe.

  • He tossed it off the pan on to a plate and let the scanty brown gravy trickle over it.

  • I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

  • But he pulled me off the bale by the leg, and that woke me up so I sensed what he was saying.

  • Early that afternoon, as I was coming from my shanty to the bluff on my way to the shore after dinner, I noticed a steam-yacht at anchor two mile or so off the bar.

  • And then that other car--the one that followed us, came up behind and forced us off the bank.

  • Had it been for the purpose of throwing us off the track?

  • Carefully Craig laid the prepared paper on the floor just a few inches from the door into the outer office and scattered a few other sheets about, as though the wind had blown them off the desk.

  • If the horse slipped there would be a double tragedy, for Nagger would knock his master off the cliff.

  • Bostil watched while the workmen turned the boat over and slid it off the sand-bar and tied it securely to the mooring.

  • He's pushin' the King over--off the course!

  • Your wild hoss knocked the King off the track.

  • To the best of my judgement, like a housebreaker new to the business, my dear, who can't make himself quite comfortable till he is off the premises.

  • Fending the 'James Caird' off the rocks in the darkness was awkward work.

  • The cabins were in a dripping state, and recently fallen snow was running off the ship in little streams.

  • We made fast a line to a heavy boulder and set a watch to fend the 'James Caird' off the rocks of the beach.

  • A sudden shift of wind on February 24, when the ship was sheltering in the lee of Glacier Tongue, caused her to be jammed hard against the low ice off the glacier, but no damage was done.

  • Off the mouth of the lagoon, and likewise off the northern point of the atoll, where the currents act violently, the inclination, owing to the accumulation of sediment, is less.

  • But I did put it off the best I could, my being there; and so by and by had opportunity alone to show Sir T.

  • He reached down quickly and lifted something off the man's coat.

  • He took a hasty step to the telephone, put his hand on the receiver and was about to take it off the hook.

  • The wind seemed to come with a spite, an edge to it, which threatened to scrape us off the yards.

  • Before night it began to rain; and we had five days of rainy, stormy weather, under close sail all the time, and were blown several hundred miles off the coast.

  • The Pilgrim had passed through the Canal and hove-to off the town, nearly six weeks before, on her passage down from Monterey, and was now at the leeward.

  • It was a sad sight for her crew to see us getting ready to go off the coast, while they, who had been longer on the coast than the Alert, were condemned to another year's hard service.

  • It's part of the same ruse--it was put there to throw us off the scent.

  • I am growing more and more confident that some ordinary burglars have committed this crime and are trying to put us off the scent by diverting our attention to Lupin.

  • But what is uncommon about it, and what at first sight put me off the track, is that these burglars had the cheek to pierce the wall with an opening large enough to enable them to remove the furniture of a house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "off the" 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:
    another subject; offense against; offer himself; offer sacrifice; offer sacrifices; offer their; offer them; offer you; offered himself; offered them; offered upon the altar; offering made; office again; office late; officers were; official account; official duty; official information; official journal; official language; official reports; opera buffa; outdoor relief; seven hundred; similar manner; things according