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come to be detached
His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery -
happen in a particular manner
how did your talk go over? -
break off (a piece from a whole)
Her tooth chipped
How To Use come off In A Sentence
- As wonderful a tournament as the Masters is, Augusta can still come off as a blowy cathedral of self-worship — i.e. calling its spectators "patrons," a fancy word that is also used behind the counter at a food court. Phil Lifts Masters Out of the Woods
- 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
