run off with
Idioms-
Make off with; see run away with , def. 1.
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Capture or carry off, as in The debaters ran off with the state championship .
Example Sentences
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He had once been a Catholic priest - before quitting the church to run off with Enid, two weeks after he'd married her to someone else.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
“So do you mean we’ve just run off with someone’s ring?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024
Whose baby was it, and why on Earth did the parents think it was safe for a con artist to run off with such precious cargo?
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023
But Hakan Akbas, managing director of Strategic Advisory Services, an Istanbul-based political advisory, said Erdogan seemed to be on track to achieve what he was hoping: a run off with Kilicdaroglu.
From Reuters • May 11, 2023
Of course he couldn’t just run off with Theo.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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