How To Use Throw off In A Sentence

  • The difference in the power of the system to absorb different substances, appropriate whatever can be utilized, and throw off whatever can not be used, is sometimes called idiosyncrasy, but more properly it may be called vital resistance, and upon the integrity of this power rests the ability to combat disease in all its forms, whether it be the absorption of any animal virus or the poison resulting from undigested food. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • The belt may make a squealing noise and throw off sooty black particles of rubber.
  • It took me a week to throw off my cold.
  • Acts xv. 1, and Galatians, passim; these do not judaize, but heathenize, seeking to throw off every yoke, to rid themselves not of the ceremonial law only, but also of the moral; and to break down every distinction separating the Church from a world lying in the wicked one. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
  • In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater.
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  • The gang tries to throw off the yoke of racist oppression and control their own destinies.
  • Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can obtain admission to the Bannatine Club, 13 when I propose to throw off an edition, limited according to the rules of that erudite Society, with a facsimile of the manuscript, emblazonry of the family arms surrounded by their quartering, and a handsome disclamation of family pride, with HAEC NOS NOVIMUS ESSE Chronicles of the Canongate
  • He was a fervent anti-communist who could comprehend and believe that people everywhere would choose to throw off the communist system if they ever had the chance.
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions. Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York
  • They throw off a secretion known as sebum, which is made up principally of dead cells that have undergone fatty degeneration and of other debris. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
  • It would throw off the neocon power base and realign all manner of forces.
  • The crisis for Mesmer also has this function of katharsis and exclusion, involving "an effort of the living body to throw off an illness" and marking 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
  • Any competent magnetist or hypnotiser can throw off the spell in all cases of self-induced trance, unless it has reached the condition of complete catalepsy. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead.
  • I'm unable to throw off this feeling of inertia.
  • Why can't it throw off its dubious reputation? Times, Sunday Times
  • It mobilizes all its resources around one new breakthrough product, only to find that the marvel fails to throw off enough cash or gain sufficient market share.
  • During the warm season a few individuals... throw off their covering and appear as perfect insects provided with wings. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • It's time for you to throw off your mask.
  • And the ones that make you want to throw off the shackles and shout along are always the best. The Sun
  • There is a potency in the idea of the shikseh that is hard to throw off, no matter however many of them you fall in love with. Kalooki Nights
  • Throw off the chains of chemical dependency. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
  • He's clever inside, shoots really well for his size, and his game is unorthodox enough to throw off the defense.
  • It's a classic tale: Small-town boy moves to the big city to throw off the noose of repression and take a walk on the wild side.
  • Father stirred fretfully, trying to throw off the heavy quilts.
  • They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
  • She wanted to throw off the bare brown arm which rested lightly across her. LAST SHOT
  • As one of Wall Street's leading quants, Derman did throw off some intense gamma radiation.
  • The distance from Ecuador to Sacramento is great enough that the curvature would throw off the transmissions. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Parry came down Hecla's side in this huge cloak that he didn't throw off even when all the men were assembled — most in costume, we had this huge trunk of costumes on each ship — and when he did throw down the cloak, we saw Parry as that old Marine — you remember the one with the peg leg what played the fiddle for ha'pennies near Chatham? The Terror
  • The public had previously called upon the artistic community within the establishment to throw off the shackles of regimented style favoured by the state.
  • I can't seem to throw off this cold.
  • She wanted to throw off the bare brown arm which rested lightly across her. LAST SHOT
  • When teams go two goals down, they throw off their shackles and stream forward. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not even the sight of unslick Rick watching from the stands with her can throw off my game. The Ex Games
  • I'm unable to throw off this feeling of inertia.
  • He will rise in society and throw off his base origins.
  • He can't throw off his drinking habit.
  • The distance from Ecuador to Sacramento is great enough that the curvature would throw off the transmissions. MINUTES TO BURN
  • With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system.
  • When teams go two goals down, they throw off their shackles and stream forward. Times, Sunday Times
  • If eggs of Echinarachnius be inseminated with thin sperm suspension they throw off membranes that are fully formed and equidistant from the surface of the vitellus in from two to three minutes.
  • We will throw off the shackles and turn in a performance against Slovenia. The Sun
  • Parry came down Hecla's side in this huge cloak that he didn't throw off even when all the men were assembled — most in costume, we had this huge trunk of costumes on each ship — and when he did throw down the cloak, we saw Parry as that old Marine — you remember the one with the peg leg what played the fiddle for ha'pennies near Chatham? The Terror
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • He managed to throw off those newspaper reporters.
  • The inexperienced ought here to be guarded against the highly improper practice of some artists, who strew their pictures while wet with acetate of lead, or use that substance in some other mode, without grinding or solution; which, though it may promote present drying, will ultimately effloresce on the surface of the work, throw off the colour in sandy spots, and expose the paintings to peculiar risk from the damaging influence of impure air. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • He was a stout man of some fifty years, who adhered to a full-bottomed wig in despite of fashion, and who pursed his lips on hearing of Lady Mary's determination to throw off the protection of Lord Shurland. Gatlinburg
  • Any sweat contains wastes and toxins that the body wants to throw off. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
  • We should throw off the heavy, Germanic Leitmotiven we've been burdened with all these years, and like characters in any good Baroque opera, adopt the affetto proper to our roles. Intermission.
  • The belt may make a squealing noise and throw off sooty black particles of rubber.
  • The religious ritual was followed by a public feast – reason enough for the Romans to throw off their cumbersome togas and to don lightweight dressing gowns and pilei soft red caps. 2007 December 22 archive at eternallycool.net
  • A few, however, throw off only b-particles, while some are "rayless", i.e. undergo transformation without the expulsion of high-speed Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Lecture
  • During the warm season a few individuals... throw off their covering and appear as perfect insects provided with wings. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • Garlic stimulates the lymphatic system and helps it to throw off toxins.
  • Still, based on this, I wonder if someone could write a file sharing system that specifically generated incorrect information to throw off sniffers?
  • The distance from Ecuador to Sacramento is great enough that the curvature would throw off the transmissions. MINUTES TO BURN
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • I can't seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.
  • I want somewhere I can fall into, throw off the seven-layer garb, and dine knowing those around me aren't hoping Bill Cunningham will shoot them for the ‘Sunday Styles’ section in their new shearling.
  • Why can't it throw off its dubious reputation? Times, Sunday Times
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • He began to throw off the effects of his illness.
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • He had let himself be slugged to throw off suspicion, but they had hit him too hard and broken his collarbone. THREE IN ONE
  • And no sooner was his father buried and the ceremonies over that marked his accession to the throne, than the young man hastened to throw off his robes of state, and calling to his vizir to make ready likewise, stole out in the simple dress of a private citizen into the less known streets of the capital. Still Separate & Unequal
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • You see kids who just throw off their clothes, they want to break down that barrier and get natural again.
  • I spent a lot of time watching my feet, making sure to throw off of my left foot rather than resorting to my old flat-footed infielder peg.
  • It's taken me ages to throw off this cold.
  • With their help, perhaps she could get Richard to throw off the lingering effects of the wolfsbane today. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
  • `We could relive the experience and you could pretend you're an earnest schoolgirl who's managed to throw off her teachers. JUST BETWEEN US
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • This could be the catalyst needed for the revolution of the common people of the world to unite and throw off the yoke of government oppression.
  • They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • Bombs not only throw off shrapnel themselves, they create lots of deadly flying debris, including flying glass from broken windows, that can kill and maim.
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • Guthrie was a socialist, sure, but the Internationale is a call to arms to abolish private property, eliminate international borders, and throw off your chains and rise up to smash the state. Boing Boing: April 3, 2005 - April 9, 2005 Archives
  • No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
  • Such resentful people easily become restive; should a promising opportunity to throw off the oppressor's dominion present itself, they may seize it.
  • Any sweat contains wastes and toxins that the body wants to throw off. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
  • And the ones that make you want to throw off the shackles and shout along are always the best. The Sun
  • He longed to throw off the mask of respectability.
  • _ Certain poisonous drugs may prove effective to suppress certain symptoms by benumbing the nerves and preventing pain; they may, and do counteract the natural process by which nature exercises her power in various ways in the spontaneous effort to throw off disease, in the form of inflammations, fevers or pains; _but they can never heal, or eradicate disease_. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
  • He managed to throw off those newspaper reporters.
  • Probably he did it, either in flattery to the tyrant, or else that he might throw off from himself both the trouble and the odium that might arise upon the occasion of condemning Jesus, whom he judged to be an innocent man, and whom in some measure he pitied, looking upon him as a sort of a delirant person, one not very well in his wits: which opinion also From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • It can throw off borrowers by hundreds of thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • The young tennis player is unlikely to throw off the more experienced competitor.
  • This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature.
  • The belt may make a squealing noise and throw off sooty black particles of rubber.
  • We will throw off the shackles and turn in a performance against Slovenia. The Sun
  • That dividend is affordable enough; the sort of businesses Informa is in throw off huge amounts of cash. Times, Sunday Times
  • Throw off the chains of chemical dependency. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
  • I'm unable to throw off this feeling of inertia.
  • We might even throw off the servitude that presently allows 'our leaders 'to inhabit our same world unhung and unreproached just so long as they inflict their iniquities on innocents other than ourselves. 'Leaders', and what to do about them
  • The main appeal to investors is the huge amounts of cash the companies throw off. Times, Sunday Times
  • McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans.
  • How regularly do you feel the need to throw off the tennis clothes and tracksuits and glam up a bit in a smart dress? Times, Sunday Times
  • `We could relive the experience and you could pretend you're an earnest schoolgirl who's managed to throw off her teachers. JUST BETWEEN US
  • Note: The Zodiac is known to intentionally misspell words and uses bad grammar in order to avoid identification and to presumably throw off professional code breakers.
  • And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up.
  • For days thereafter the phrase rankled in his mind -- "I can throw off the burden when I will. The Sea-Hawk
  • If it brings about democratic progress, why is it a bad thing for people to throw off the yoke of tyranny and decide that they want to control their own futures?
  • He had let himself be slugged to throw off suspicion, but they had hit him too hard and broken his collarbone. THREE IN ONE
  • So he jazzed up the movie with rapid fire, machinegun edits and one confusing montage after another that completely throw off any sense of continuity.
  • He had let himself be slugged to throw off suspicion, but they had hit him too hard and broken his collarbone. THREE IN ONE
  • It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies.

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