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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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 • Apr. 29, 2025
Prosecutors told jurors the narrative that Mr Billingham had run off with another woman was "completely false".
From BBC • Apr. 26, 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
It was hardly her fault that Aunt Hermione had run off with some toad who delivered fireside sermons on the wireless every week.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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