How to Use be/get carried away in a Sentence

be/get carried away

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• But don’t get carried away with the unattainable goal of poreless skin.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• And, despite the shooting display by the Bucks, let's not get carried away.
  — Emmett Prosser, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• The curtain fell to great applause, but Williams had to be carried away and died soon after.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2022
• In the interest of fairness, let’s not get carried away here.
  — Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Many cars will stall in six inches of water or less and can be carried away by two feet of water.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2021
• Of course, Ríos was well short of the number of at-bats needed to qualify for that list, so let’s not get carried away.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• This is the price of letting inflation get carried away.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• Monday is mainly sunny, and if the easterly winds don’t get carried away, highs are in the mid- to upper 70s.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• Finally, don’t get carried away with the orbital sander.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Most of the energy will be carried away by neutrons, which will escape the plasma and strike the walls of the tokamak, producing heat.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Yet, despite their winning ways, the Mets are trying not to get carried away with that momentum.
  — Deesha Thosar, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2022
• All the people in that group had to be carried away from the edge of the mine and were then temporarily held to determine their identities, police said.
  — Stephane Nitscke and Madeline Chambers, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2023
• Don't be carried away by your short-term desires -- instead, keep saving your savings.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Take it all in amid the city locals and let yourself be carried away by the energy and charm that is the floating city — with plenty of fantastic hotels to choose from.
  — Joyce Falcone, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2023
• One improvement, especially for school bands, might be to take the music outside, where virus-laden aerosols are more likely to be carried away by the open air.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 June 2020
• Some bedding brands get carried away with their marketing claims, which can mislead to shoppers buying sheets for the wrong reasons.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022
• When a tornado blows into view, people race—too late—to get out of its path, only to be carried away by winds that can surpass two hundred miles per hour.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 July 2024
• One protester had to be carried away from a demonstration after she was hit with a beanbag gun shot at close range, leaving a gaping wound on her thigh.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
• The Orioles had more ammunition to execute a blockbuster trade than any other contender, but they did not get carried away by the moment.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
• Although Moore fielded offers from several top programs around the country, Moore wanted to keep things simple and not get carried away by the chance at limelight.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• As LaToya drove away, Falynn ultimately had to be carried away by Simon to avoid a physical fight.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2021
• Sometimes David allows himself to get carried away like everyone else.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
• With that one word, Jacques, who was soon to be carried away by a fatal cold, had given a seafaring Polish exile a vital nod of encouragement.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• But don't get carried away: There's a lot more to personality types than someone's eyebrows can exhibit.
  — John Riley, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• One fan calmly allowed security to walk him off field, but the other kept waving his hands, kicking and flailing to get the 25-year-old star athlete's attention and had to be carried away by three guards.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Instead of letting yourself be carried away by temptations, find your focus.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
• Congestion has resulted in limited yard space for new vessels to berth and tons of containers piling up at ports waiting to be carried away.
  — Andy Chou, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Authorities have warned the risk is especially high for children to be carried away by river currents or unable to escape from ponds.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• Before we get carried away: The starlet is, actually, in a relationship.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2022
• The sense of carrying on a legacy of the past, and of carrying an obligation to preserve the past for the future, is both a sobering and a comforting one, reminding us neither to get carried away with passing trends nor to despair that all is doomed.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024