VERB
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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 -
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 -
kill in large numbers
the plague wiped out an entire population
How To Use carry off In A Sentence
- Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
- "You are fair-skinned, so you can totally carry off red."
- As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
- Plus, I think I could carry off navy and luminous yellow with aplomb.
- For a century levees had been constructed and natural outlets closed until the Atchafalaya River was the only one left to carry off the Mississippi's floodwaters.
- While she has the hair, the face and the body to carry off a fitted purple silk sheath dress, I unfortunately look like a rugby prop forward in drag.
- As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
- But, added Emma, apart from school trendies, ‘only real fashion victims can carry off the look well,’ and she warned: ‘You also need to be a certain shape.’
- I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray for him and fall asleep.
- By this it was provided that thereafter the captain of a cruiser who should impress an American citizen should be liable to heavy penalties, to be enacted by law; but as the preamble to this proposition read, "Whereas it is not lawful for a belligerent to impress or carry off, from on board a neutral, seafaring persons _who are not the subjects of the belligerent_," there was admitted implicitly the right to impress those who were such subjects, the precise point at issue. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
