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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Louella said we would have to watch Imogene, “Or else she’ll try to run off with Howard and take him home and name him some dog name, like Rover or Spot.”
From Literature
But there were no signs of destruction, no signs that someone had run off with it.
From Literature
“Haven’t run off with any vampires yet.”
From Literature
She “died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100, hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs,” the “Crossing Delancey” star said Tuesday on social media.
From Los Angeles Times
"He'd gone into the park and these three lads had run off with it and left him, the poor lad."
From BBC
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