How to Use draw off in a Sentence

draw off

verb

• The more clay in the soil, the more ditches are needed to draw off the water.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• The Suns bench stood up, clapped, and cheered, but those playing for the visiting team couldn’t draw off a raucous road crowd.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
• Imaging of the star revealed streams of gas being drawn off the disk by its companion star, RW Aur B.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 July 2018
• But a new example has been found with gas that has been drawn off from a Neptune-like planet.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2019
• After some setbacks, BP crews succeed in inserting a small siphon tube into the well to draw off some of the leaking oil.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2020
• When the fermentation is complete and the winemaker is satisfied, the wine is drawn off the skins to begin the aging process.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• King Guillermo, disrespected by the bettors at odds of 49-1, stalked the early pace, took over in the stretch turn on the dirt in Tampa, and drew off to an easy 4 ¾-length victory.
  — cleveland, 1 May 2020
• There aren’t any sweeping conclusions to draw off one outing for any pitcher, even less so for one making his 26th career start.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 30 May 2018
• When energy is drawn off the flywheel to provide electricity to a system, the rotor slows down.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• The numbers have serious impacts on dollars-and-cents issues, from the size of the nation’s workforce to the number of people drawing off programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 4 June 2023
• Yet as economic growth endured and hiring remained robust, millions of people were eventually drawn off the sidelines and resumed their job hunts.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• Its inventor, Elisha Perkins, insisted that gently stroking each tractor over the affected area in alternation would draw off the electricity and provide relief.
  — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• With public encouragement, longstanding business titans may increasingly be drawn off their thrones into political campaigns.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2018

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024