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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 carry away In A Sentence
- Iron creates the magnetic field and copper wires carry away the current generated.
- So successful have they been in disposing of the water in that area that now they are appealing to the Provincial Government to do something to restore the flow of water in the river, for it is not sufficient in the summer time to carry away the sewage of the communities on its banks. Ontario's Postwar Planning Needs
- Run hot scalding water through the pipe to carry away any accumulations.
- A, and the whole of the inside and outside of the tube walls are coated with metal, D, D, and "earthed" so as to carry away the positive electricity as rapidly as possible, then it is seen that the molecules leaving the negative pole and striking upon the idle pole, Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
- Other homeowners have placed items in large and heavy metal or ceramic planters which are difficult to carry away quickly. Times, Sunday Times
- Below them, the used bathwater from the public baths ran down a slight incline to carry away the waste. The (Lesser) Rules of Civilization | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- The other will carry away the brine, refrigerated by the machine, to rewarm beneath the field. Times, Sunday Times
- Soil around foundation should be sloped to carry away water.
- On the second day, a storm of biblical proportions unleashes hail, rain and floods that carry away valuable equipment on rivers of mud.
- On the second day, a storm of biblical proportions unleashes hail, rain and floods that carry away valuable equipment on rivers of mud.
