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be successful; achieve a goal
I managed to carry the box upstairs
The pianist negociated the difficult runs
She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it
She succeeded in persuading us all
How To Use bring off In A Sentence
- Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off. After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Every spring the moorhens build themselves a nest on a raft of twigs or on the bank at the waterline, for a clutch of speckled brown eggs to bring off a hatch of four or five tiny brown-black chicks.
- That stirred up a strong reaction from Republicans who objected to what they called intimidation, after which one of the prosecutors who was quoted denied any intent to bring official charges. Sadly, Mostly True
- They were about to bring off an even bigger coup.
- Again, few pianists can really bring off the music's elusive sense of innocence filtered through experience. Times, Sunday Times
- Marisol Montalvo, the soprano who took it on, is another Eschenbach favorite, and with reason: She has the musical chops to bring off this difficult piece, and the tessitura to reach the stratosphere of the high notes, where the score kept her much of the time. The National Symphony Orchestra audience directs its attention to Eschenbach
- Andhra wicketkeeper, Prasanna Kumar, belied his bulky figure to bring off fine diving saves.
- Another 4000 km pipeline is being built to bring offshore gas from Hainan Island to the southern and eastern coasts.
- The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther has been pleased into the harms of old salaciters, meassurers soon and soon, but the voice of Alina gladdens the cockly-hearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker-brose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Finnegans Wake
- Take a piece of oznaburgs the size you want the star or blaze; spread it with warm pitch and apply it to the horses face; let it remain two or three days, by which time it will bring off the hair clean, and make the part a little tender; then take of elixor vitriol a small quantity, anoint the part two or three times; or, take of a very common weed called asmart, a small handful, bruise it, and add to it about a gill of water, use it as a wash until the face gets well, when the hair will grow out entirely white. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
