How to Use carry away in a Sentence

carry away

verb

• The footage shared by the outlet showed the water over the hood of the woman’s car as she was carried away.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• The rivers carry away billions of tonnes of earth and sediment, one grain at a time, over thousands of years.
  — Carly Miller, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• When the truck tipped over, the workers were carried away by the surging water from the nearby Nolichucky River.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• The big picture: Towns were evacuated and whole homes were carried away by record-breaking floodwaters.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
• Large storm surges can carry away homes and wash out roads.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• When the truck tipped over, the workers were carried away by the surging water.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• She’ll be carried away by this luxe and crazy-soft wool cardigan.
  — Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2024
• But don’t get carried away with the unattainable goal of poreless skin.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Gleaners carry away the too-small or too-large potatoes that farmers have dumped in piles by the side of the road.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• And, despite the shooting display by the Bucks, let's not get carried away.
  — Emmett Prosser, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• But one day, the president’s chef got carried away with the cornmeal and added too much.
  — Christina Morales, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• That’s enough to carry away any and all effluent the fish release.
  — Adam Skolnick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The globs — along with some rocks and sand — were bagged for disposal and carried away by power boat.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Video of the site of an Israeli airstrike showed bodies being carried away amid the debris.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• As the injured are carried away, a mother searches for her son.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The two carry away the ladder in a tender father-son moment.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
• One of the waste products carried away is amyloid, the substance that forms sticky plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 June 2024
• Video from the site showed body parts scattered on the ground and more bodies being carried away and covered in blankets on the floor.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• That particular line was buried 25 feet deep, but the land eroded so much that the pipe was carried away.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
• Some of the protestors were arrested and being carried away in zip ties, the videos showed.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• But a hot spring could mean the snow melts faster than the rivers and streams can safely carry away, causing downstream flooding.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2023
• The sole purpose of this part of a masonry drill bit is to carry away the debris created by drilling.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Allow your garden predators to keep pests under control, and the breeze to carry away pests, too.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• Eventually he is freed and carried away as the crowds keep digging.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Finally, don’t get carried away with the orbital sander.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Though Abby tries to stick to her lecture script, she is constantly carried away by her own thoughts.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Football is an emotional game and fans get too carried away.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• During a sky burial, the deceased is placed inside to be eaten and carried away by birds, with the belief that the body and soul are now dispersed to the heavens.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 June 2024
• The flushing would be designed to carry away any fish eggs or larvae floating in the water, Leichty said.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2022
• In Japan, one man allegedly climbed down a rope to break into a store and carry away $9,000 worth of Pokemon cards, according to TheGamer.com.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024