How To Use buy off In A Sentence
- The Vagabonds, in effect, buy off the by-blow of their hired man's romance, and the action of the novel consists of what the present generation makes of that earlier gift.
- The $4.3 billion in canal fees the government received last year helped subsidize staples like bread; less revenue means less money to buy off the masses, and government officials fear a repeat of the bread riots that gripped northern Egypt in 2008. Exodus
- At worst, it is an exercise in short-term political cynicism intended to buy off the war critics. Times, Sunday Times
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- Provinces won in war could later be milked of tribute to enrich the Roman state and its rulers and to buy off any risk of discontent at home.
- If be of small area, repair also can buy off-the-peg glue to undertake repairing from market.
- Yes, it will," said the captain of the xebeque; "and remember, you scoundrel, if you can escape and buy off justice, you shall not escape seven Portuguese knives, -- mind you that. The Privateersman
- But Peter Carroll, a former haulier leading the FairFuelUK campaign group, said the move might be enough to buy off truckers agitating for fuel blockades. Budget 2011: Surprise fuel duty concession will cost oil industry £10bn
- They want a property they can buy off the shelf, fully managed, as they will barely use it. Times, Sunday Times
- The grant will be used for social activities and to buy office equipment.
