How to Use carry away in a Sentence

carry away

verb

• Nix got carried away in the fourth, launching the ball deep down the field to Mims and was picked off by Ward.
  — Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
• Large storm surges can carry away homes and wash out roads.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• The footage shared by the outlet showed the water over the hood of the woman’s car as she was carried away.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• When the truck tipped over, the workers were carried away by the surging water.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• She’ll be carried away by this luxe and crazy-soft wool cardigan.
  — Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2024
• But don’t get carried away with the unattainable goal of poreless skin.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Gleaners carry away the too-small or too-large potatoes that farmers have dumped in piles by the side of the road.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• And, despite the shooting display by the Bucks, let's not get carried away.
  — Emmett Prosser, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• But one day, the president’s chef got carried away with the cornmeal and added too much.
  — Christina Morales, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• That’s enough to carry away any and all effluent the fish release.
  — Adam Skolnick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The globs — along with some rocks and sand — were bagged for disposal and carried away by power boat.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Video of the site of an Israeli airstrike showed bodies being carried away amid the debris.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• The rivers carry away billions of tonnes of earth and sediment, one grain at a time, over thousands of years.
  — Carly Miller, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• As the injured are carried away, a mother searches for her son.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The two carry away the ladder in a tender father-son moment.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
• One of the waste products carried away is amyloid, the substance that forms sticky plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 June 2024
• Video from the site showed body parts scattered on the ground and more bodies being carried away and covered in blankets on the floor.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• Each time the calf slides off of the whale mother’s head, J35 makes the choice to dive down and pick it up again before the body is carried away by the water, per The Seattle Times.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Some of the protestors were arrested and being carried away in zip ties, the videos showed.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• But a hot spring could mean the snow melts faster than the rivers and streams can safely carry away, causing downstream flooding.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2023
• So consult your physician, ask lots of questions, and don’t get carried away.
  — Melinda Fulmer, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
• When the truck tipped over, the workers were carried away by the surging water from the nearby Nolichucky River.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• The sole purpose of this part of a masonry drill bit is to carry away the debris created by drilling.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• But don’t get carried away—keyword stuffing isn’t the answer.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Are you usually grounded in the present or carried away by stressful thoughts?
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
• Allow your garden predators to keep pests under control, and the breeze to carry away pests, too.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• Eventually he is freed and carried away as the crowds keep digging.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Finally, don’t get carried away with the orbital sander.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Just six inches of moving water can knock a person over, and two feet can carry away vehicles.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025