How to Use carry off in a Sentence

carry off

verb

• The mob, blood-drunk, tries to carry off Maelor to earn the queen’s bounty, and the boy is torn limb from limb in the.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• These early avians were about the size of a hawk and had strong enough feet to capture and carry off prey–possibly even small dinosaurs.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024
• The stewards were set to stop the race when Cedillo was carried off the track.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The cliffhanger, the season ends with Ice getting carried off — that's not a good place to be.
  — Alex Ross, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• Mathurin sprained his right ankle in a win over the Rockets on March 9 and had to be carried off the floor.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2023
• We will get carried off that field Michael Jordan-style.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
• Díaz was carried off the field before being put in a wheelchair.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Both times she was carried off the floor by her sister, Kellan, a senior.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• They were carried off by police and Scheffler, putting for birdie with red residue in his sight line, missed three inches shy of the hole.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024
• The whole show felt choreographed to overwhelm even its star, and when Lana left the stage for the final time, she was carried off, swaddled in a white sheet.
  — Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
• With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• There are plum solos for the many figures in Morton’s life, each carried off by a Black theater star.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
• There's still the matter, though, of the lengths WhatsApp has had to go to to carry off this routine policy update.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 15 May 2021
• Ashford handed the ball off to Bigsby out of the shotgun, and the running back took the carry off left guard before cutting back to the right side of the field at the 35-yard line.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2022
• She was carried off of the competition floor with her face in her hands and wheeled out of the arena by medical staff.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 June 2024
• He was carried off the field and to the locker room, his face covered with a towel and shaking his head, as teammates reached out to pat him on the shoulder.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Lino Mark had 14 points but was carried off in the fourth quarter after suffering cramps.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ekeler ended three of the drives with TDs, and put Los Angeles on top 7-3 with a 6-yard carry off left tackle.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2021
• Backup running back Kyle Owens had no idea his night would end this way, carried off the field on the shoulders of his offensive line.
  — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Being a rube, though, Lucien cannot carry off the performance.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• The smell of jet fuel came off his unit as technicians carried off a boat afterward.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• Jefferson went 2 for 2 against the top unit on defense and AJ Green had a pair of runs to either side of the line, with a carry off left tackle gaining good yardage.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2023
• Blakely was carried off of the competition floor with her face in her hands and wheeled out of the arena by medical staff.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 30 June 2024
• As a result, the player who returned to training with Angel City this month is not the same one who was carried off the field eight games into the team’s first season.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• The stuff that was too heavy to carry off — large silver pieces and fancy luggage — was left behind when Spaulding vanished.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Diaz had to be carried off the field and will undergo surgery later this week, ending his MLB season.
  — Matthew Kitchen, Chron, 19 Mar. 2023
• The bad news for the Clippers was when Plumlee was carried off the court by the team’s medical staff in the third quarter after a collision with Julius Randle.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• His leg buckled in a non-contact situation, and he was later carried off the field on a stretcher.
  — oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
• Mathurin had to be carried off the floor and didn't return with what was initially diagnosed as a sprained right ankle.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
• Once inside, the burglars ransack the homes, carrying off cash, jewelry and even safes.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024