How to Use carry off in a Sentence

carry off

verb
  • He was then carried off the field.
    — Isabella Kunde, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • He was then carried off the pitch.
    — Dan Kilpatrick, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Her voice was half–carried off by the dry wind.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • He was carried off the field that day, too.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Watkins had to be carried off, unable to put any weight on her leg.
    — Beth Harris, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • She was carried off the court and into the locker room.
    — ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • She was carried off the stage by medical team staff.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • She was carried off in a protective neck brace.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • My daughter was carried off to the nursery.
    — Tatiana Schlossberg, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • She was carried off the court, unable to put weight on the leg, and didn’t return.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • Luggage was whisked away, skis were carried off to the gear room, check-in commenced.
    — Michael Paterniti, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Smaller dogs can be carried off a trail, but larger dogs may have to walk out on their own.
    — Caleb Lunetta, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
  • Díaz was carried off the field before being put in a wheelchair.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • She was carried off the court midway through the fourth quarter with a leg injury.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The stewards were set to stop the race when Cedillo was carried off the track.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Young was eventually carried off the stage as fans cheered her on.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Swift knows how to carry off a thematic updo.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 16 Feb. 2026
  • In the nineteenth century, most of the stone was carried off to build a farmhouse.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Both times she was carried off the floor by her sister, Kellan, a senior.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Due to disobedience, they had been carried off to a foreign land.
    — Rev. Tom Rakow, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024
  • With his head secured in an orange brace, Tanev flashed a brief thumbs-up as he was carried off the ice.
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The mob, blood-drunk, tries to carry off Maelor to earn the queen’s bounty, and the boy is torn limb from limb in the.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The cliffhanger, the season ends with Ice getting carried off — that's not a good place to be.
    — Alex Ross, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Effaced, our villages, carried off by endless war.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • The smell of jet fuel came off his unit as technicians carried off a boat afterward.
    — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • She was carried off the ballroom floor in a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The bound, heavy scriptures were placed on the cot and carried off in a procession to its sleeping quarters.
    — Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The echoes from Phil Little Thunder’s drum were carried off by the wind.
    — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • So much, that a Rams season that was on the ropes was carried off on the team’s collective shoulders.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Being a rube, though, Lucien cannot carry off the performance.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 9 June 2022

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