Take off

"Take off" in a Sentence (26 examples)

He took off his shoes.

The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.

Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.

Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off.

The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too.

By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.

Yes, the Peaches, on a nearly non-existent budget, lack professionalism. The basic format of this show — taking off on television, with a soap opera, a quiz show, news, a cooking class and commercials for KY and grass, etc. — resembles kids getting up a skit.

Pym would take him off perfectly, thought Brotherhood. Pym would catch that accent to a tee.

The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.

That high-jumper takes off from her left foot.

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Mute swans need a long stretch of water in order to take off.

You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.

The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.

2007 July 12, The Guardian, A welcome invasion. The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves.

As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.

I'm going to take off now.

Take off, loser!

It is so easy when problems arise in a relationship to just take off.

Ben threw twenty bucks on the table, grabbed the map and took off after the thief, following Susan who had run off before him.

I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.

If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.

He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.

to take off a glass of wine

France never experienced a "take off" of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.

Therefore, the only sure way to estimate the quantity of lumber required for any particular job is to do a take off of each piece of lumber needed for the work.

This is virtually equal to the minimum value shown above to be necessary in the case of a total loss in thrust from one of the four engines at take off.

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