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 -
cause to withdraw
We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged -
remove by drawing or pulling
She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth
draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese -
pull or pull out sharply
pluck the flowers off the bush
How To Use pull off In A Sentence
- ‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
- But I did, and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ` A Wayside Comedy’ where I worked for a certain ` economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
- You cannot pull off a stunt like that, it's suicide!
- A guy comes up with a caper, he puts together a team, they plan, and then they pull off the heist.
- FROM THE POST: The Nationals pull off a perfectly executed relay, and we go inside to discover the hidden beauty in a 9-6-5 putout. Fifth starter intrigue
- I also liked that you had to be in step with someone you were sneaking up on if you wanted to pull off a brutal move.
- Pull off the tops and fill the space with some annual planting. Times, Sunday Times
- As long as you pull off the moves on screen you are free to improvise the rest of the time. The Sun
- Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
- For a second, I thought he was going to do the unthinkable and just pull off without getting his fare. THE CALLIGRAPHER