pull off

verb

pulled off; pulling off; pulls off

transitive verb

: to carry out despite difficulties : accomplish successfully against odds
the team pulled off an upset

Examples of pull off in a Sentence

the rebel forces pulled off a surprisingly successful offensive against the better equipped government troops
Recent Examples on the Web In June 2020, the clip show was pulled off the air after 33 seasons in response to the Black Lives Matter resurgence that summer. Scarlett Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024 At age 81, the timeless Payne pulls off miracle after miracle as the revered songstress, belting with glee and ebulliently scatting through dozens of songs with, like Fitzgerald, a shockingly wide vocabulary of sounds and syllables. Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024 Coach of the Year Mark Dalzell, Elizabeth Seton Dalzell, who coaches the DeMatha boys in the spring and the Seton girls in the fall, pulled off a feat most coaches can only dream of: winning titles with two teams in the same calendar year. Aaron Credeur, Washington Post, 20 June 2024 Set in New York, Owen plays a bank robber looking to pull off the perfect theft. Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for pull off 

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Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pull off was in 1883

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“Pull off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pull%20off. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.

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