come off

How To Use come off In A Sentence

• The lid won't come off accidentally , it's been fastened on.
• So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• With words like "nite" and "lite" having achieved semi-acceptable status as at least "alternate spellings," I suppose it's only a matter of time before "u" become official. Archive 2007-03-01
• There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
• The tail is fixed on the model plane with nails; it cannot come off.
• Was that because the dirt from the right sneaker had come off all over the floor? AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
• One of the pedals has come off my bicycle.
• Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
• He has been at hard-heads with the rogues and come off with advantage; in short, practised with success the art of drawing two souls out of one weaver. [ The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
• They can easily come off the slippery surface, get traction on a dry piece of road, and just fire off into the crowd, or a lamp post, or anything else, at the drop of a hat.