VERB
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remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
I'll take you away on a holiday
Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
The car carried us off to the meeting
How To Use bear off In A Sentence
- The object of the game is to “bear off” all of your checkers from the backgammon board before your opponent. Skills as Network Goods
- The immediate flaw is that these strictly paired couples do not intercopulate, and so cannot bear offspring.
- Two years is one ridge, when you pass the ridge easily and verily,(sentence dictionary) you will bear off more chance to face with greater challenge.
- My dogs started this bear off the box and 2 hours later it thought it had found a safe place to get away from them, I reached in and snapped a picture to see what they had, after tieing the dogs back and banging on the log it came out and the race was on it treed quick, I Took some more pictures and left it to run again. Field & Stream
- Then the young men ran afoot before her for the prize of a belt and knife, and forsooth she wotted well that were she to run against them with trussed-up skirts she would bear off the prize; but she had no heart thereto, for amidst them all, and her new friendships, she had grown shamefast, and might play the wood-maiden no longer. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- It also penalizes you for losing those same types of games if you get gammoned or bear off only one or two men at the end.
