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
Post-shower, don’t get carried away with vigorous toweling.
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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
He was carried away by the heavy currents after leaving the vehicle, the coroner’s office told CNN.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
Along with the membrane, there is a thermal management system to carry away the heat generated by the fuel cell and, ironically, a lithium battery to store power for peak demand periods.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 1 Feb. 2025
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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
He was carried away by the heavy currents after leaving the vehicle, the coroner’s office told CNN.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
Along with the membrane, there is a thermal management system to carry away the heat generated by the fuel cell and, ironically, a lithium battery to store power for peak demand periods.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 1 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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Brozek sustained minor injuries and was transported to an area hospital for evaluation, state police said.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
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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This is a cop novel that fully satisfies its genre expectations — chases, gun battles, sinister bad guys, questionable cops, cowards and heroes.—
Claude Peck,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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Either type of injury would satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement of the standing test.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
15 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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Vaccinations benefit people, but Ladapo would overturn every medical triumph of the last 100 years to please his boss.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
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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Milli raps on the snippet, which has since been deleted, along with the post.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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As the new parents drive away, baby Benito begins rapping along to the lyrics.—
Juan J. Arroyo,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Carry away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry%20away. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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