How to Use draw off in a Sentence

draw off

verb
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  • The more clay in the soil, the more ditches are needed to draw off the water.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The Suns bench stood up, clapped, and cheered, but those playing for the visiting team couldn’t draw off a raucous road crowd.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Imaging of the star revealed streams of gas being drawn off the disk by its companion star, RW Aur B.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 July 2018
  • But a new example has been found with gas that has been drawn off from a Neptune-like planet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2019
  • After some setbacks, BP crews succeed in inserting a small siphon tube into the well to draw off some of the leaking oil.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2020
  • When the fermentation is complete and the winemaker is satisfied, the wine is drawn off the skins to begin the aging process.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • King Guillermo, disrespected by the bettors at odds of 49-1, stalked the early pace, took over in the stretch turn on the dirt in Tampa, and drew off to an easy 4 ¾-length victory.
    — cleveland, 1 May 2020
  • There aren’t any sweeping conclusions to draw off one outing for any pitcher, even less so for one making his 26th career start.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 30 May 2018
  • When energy is drawn off the flywheel to provide electricity to a system, the rotor slows down.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Yet as economic growth endured and hiring remained robust, millions of people were eventually drawn off the sidelines and resumed their job hunts.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • Its inventor, Elisha Perkins, insisted that gently stroking each tractor over the affected area in alternation would draw off the electricity and provide relief.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • With public encouragement, longstanding business titans may increasingly be drawn off their thrones into political campaigns.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2018

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