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Example sentences for "steal away"

  • Escape, avoid, shun, get away from, steal away from.

  • After being fooled several times we learned to conceal ourselves in the bushes where we could watch the trees, and sooner or later the monkeys would try to steal away.

  • By a lucky chance we had chosen, from all the trees in the forest, to sit under the very one in which the gibbon had been hiding and she had tried to steal away unnoticed.

  • The animal had been hiding on a branch and when we passed had tried to steal away undiscovered.

  • The words around which the whole song ranges itself are "Steal away to Jesus, I hain't got long to stay here.

  • So they made up this song, "Steal away to Jesus, I hain't got long to stay here.

  • We can best explain the nature of the Negro Parody by taking that beautiful and touching well-known Jubilee song, "Steal Away to Jesus" and briefly recounting the story of its origin.

  • Very much in the same class of song is "Steal Away".

  • Steal away, steal away home, We ain't got long to stay here.

  • Steal Away' is sech a pop'lar song what ever'body knows hit.

  • Such a song is the well-known "Steal away to Jesus.

  • Monmouth, however, took advantage of the night to steal away to Frome, which was well affected to his cause, but had been just visited and disarmed by the Earl of Pembroke with the Wiltshire militia.

  • He was grown most thoroughly tired of imperious dictation and morose religion, and he took the opportunity to steal away to join Murray, Huntly, Atholl, and the Royalists in the Highlands.

  • For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.

  • Then you knew Kenwardine meant to steal away?

  • He was not sure he would warn Dick if the fellow tried to steal away.

  • When I saw you on the ladder, I felt I ought to steal away, but must confess that I was glad when I found it was too late.

  • Since you couldn't steal away, wouldn't it have been better not to hint that I was anxious to avoid you?

  • And thy mind--stand to it, boy; steal away bravely.

  • He thanked the clerk and went back thoughtfully to his place, because it looked as if Daly had been there and the other had helped him to steal away.

  • It was possible that she had meant to retire, so to speak, with colors flying and not to steal away, but he did not understand her amusement, and feared a Parthian shot.

  • Featherstone was proud and honorable, and it must have cost him much to help his son to steal away.

  • The fast Canadian Northern boats sailed from Bristol, and Daly might choose that port if he were suspicious and meant to steal away; but Liverpool was nearer and there were more steamers to Montreal.

  • Steal away home--'" accompanied by the soft alto of Aunt Judy the cook.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steal away" 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:
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