as in to transport
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
the beauty of the music carried him away
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Recent Examples of carry away
Tyler Allgeier consistently took carries away from Robinson, though the latter still finished with 214 for 976 yards and four touchdowns.
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Scott Thompson, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2025
The league’s always been great too about adjusting and adapting when things get too carried away.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Post-shower, don’t get carried away with vigorous toweling.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
Washington considered one of the most important developments during those years to be the departure of two trains from Ukraine to Russia on May 31, 1996, carrying away the last of the country’s strategic nuclear warheads.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Scott Thompson, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2025
The league’s always been great too about adjusting and adapting when things get too carried away.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Post-shower, don’t get carried away with vigorous toweling.
—Matt Fuchs, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
Washington considered one of the most important developments during those years to be the departure of two trains from Ukraine to Russia on May 31, 1996, carrying away the last of the country’s strategic nuclear warheads.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carry away
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Cleanup spanned over the course of many years and at its peak, over 410 trucks were transporting debris to landfills every day.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The officers rendered medical aid to the men until paramedics arrived and transported them to a hospital, where they were later pronounced dead.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
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That so much night could exist within a city, flooding the side-streets and massing in secluded courtyards, entranced me.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
12 Mar. 2025
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Her hypnotic voice conjured up scenes reminiscent of Isabella Rossellini’s entrancing lounge singer performance from the David Lynch film Blue Velvet.—
Paul Chi,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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That explanation has failed to satisfy Democrats who say that plans for imminent military strikes are regularly classified.—
David Klepper,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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One of the requirements to satisfy the banks into loaning Arsenal the money was a commitment for Wenger to stay for five years.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Make Time for Tea Next door, Draper Blooms Tea Garden delights with a formal tea service that features scrumptious finger sandwiches, vanilla scones, seasonal jams, and bite-size sweets, like brownies and breads.—
Erin Gifford,
Southern Living,
22 Mar. 2025
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Gentle Great Dane Meeting New Baby Brother By Alyce Collins Life and Trends Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 A toddler's adorable bond with his Great Dane companion has delighted the internet, showing that every boy needs a four-legged friend.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Right here, inches from our noses, are observations, memories, and relationships—people to please—that can generate the kind of richness that Brainard brings to his work.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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My dad was going to engineering school at Columbia [to please] his father.—
Eric Ryan,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Dispensationalism has an offensive reputation among many Jews because the End Times prophecy outlines an event in which Jews suffer mass slaughter while Christian believers are spared because God raptured them.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
22 Nov. 2024
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Yet Mendes mostly sees a cheap, useful instrument in Deakins—a shortcut to rapture.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
8 Dec. 2022
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Sampling is foundational to rap music as both an aural and a textual medium.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Chris Shumate added 13 points and 11 rebounds for McNeese, which has been best-known this March for its viral, rapping manager and a renegade coach who has reportedly already lined up his next job — at NC State.—
Jimmy Golen,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Carry away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry%20away. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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