drawing off

How To Use drawing off In A Sentence

• The photographers from the drawing office came in with the news which had just been broadcast on the radio.
• This was only a shakedown cruise which might pay the added dividends of dislocating our shipping and drawing off our patrols. THE LONELY SEA
• A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building.
• The Army has been drawing officer from the ranks of our soldiers for most of our history.
• Cysts are treated by drawing off the fluid with a small needle and syringe (aspiration).
• Wipe the drawing off the blackboard before the teacher sees it.
• General Heron reports that the two battalions under your command fought with extraordinary steadiness, and repulsed all the attempts of his cavalry to break them; and finally succeeded in drawing off to the mountains, with the exception of the two companies that formed the rear guard. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
• If nevertheless this theory should ever become established, a stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether; which stimulus may consist of sensation or volition, as in the electric eel, as well as in the appulses of external bodies; and by drawing off the charges of vital fluid may occasion the contraction or motions of the muscular fibres, and organs of sense. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• These "choke" or "smother" the word; drawing off so much of one's attention, absorbing so much of one's interest, and using up so much of one's time, that only the dregs of these remain for spiritual things, and a fagged, hurried, and heartless formalism is at length all the religion of such persons. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• This was only a shakedown cruise which might pay the added dividends of dislocating our shipping and drawing off our patrols. THE LONELY SEA