make away

verb

1. to depart in haste

2. 1. to steal or abduct

   2. to kill, destroy, or get rid of

Example Sentences

This brings us back to the movie Ambulance: the movie’s bank robbers use a private ambulance in an attempt to make away with a pile of money.

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Two days before competing in the NBA’s three-point contest in Cleveland, guard Luke Kennard was afforded plenty of extra practice while making eight of nine three-pointers, one make away from tying a franchise record shared by Caron Butler, in 2012, and J.J.

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In his first see now, buy now show, the designer hosted about 200 guests on the landmark’s famous Observation Deck with sweeping cityscape views as the wind tried to make away with one of his model’s huge black hats.

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After the attack, the hacker said that he’d stolen the funds to keep them safe, saying that putting the coins in a “trusted account” was a way to highlight the bug without giving someone else the opportunity to make away with them.

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The wordiest of the agitators, Frances Seward, threatens to make away with their “joint story.”

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