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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“So do you mean we’ve just run off with someone’s ring?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024
Prosecutors told jurors the narrative that Mr Billingham had run off with another woman was "completely false".
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024
Rameau said there is no chance she would run off with a stranger, and never told her friend that night she had met someone.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 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
I wasn’t there because I’d run off with Zephyr.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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