carry away
verb
carried away; carrying away; carries away
1
: to arouse to a high and often excessive degree of emotion or enthusiasm
The girl was carried away by her pity.—
Winston Churchill
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Examples of carry away in a Sentence
the beauty of the music carried him away
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Mike Maynard, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Some of the protestors were arrested and being carried away in zip ties, the videos showed.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
That particular line was buried 25 feet deep, but the land eroded so much that the pipe was carried away.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
Floodwaters carried away houses, washed out highways and cut off access to towns.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Carry away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carry%20away. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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