How to Use make off in a Sentence

make off

verb

• And what’s to stop kids of making off with it as a prank?
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• In just two months, the group of friends made off with some $2.4 million.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• The men made off with the vehicle and police were called to the scene.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• The man made off with money, phones and a camera, but no one was hurt.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• The pair find their friendship and the roof over their head put at risk when Alyssa’s boyfriend makes off with their rent.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
• For instance, how many times has the dragon made off with their kids and they just . . .
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• As the adults sat around talking, Hadley plotted to make off with the ramekins of almonds and glasses of wine.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The sentence comes after the duo was found guilty of using a fake gun to try to make off with the Italian sports car.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• Don't let some random Dartmouth fan make off with this one.
  — Dan Berman, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• The thieves didn’t make off with the most expensive electrics, Paul Reed Smith guitars, either.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2022
• Before state wardens responded to the scene, a person made off with the bear’s paws.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
• Let there never be a doubt that a buck can be made off human slovenliness.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2023
• Lopez said thieves made off with merchandise from at least nine cargo trucks.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Thieves loaded the machine into the back of the truck and made off with about $2,000, according to Chula Vista police.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
• Looters during the evening broke into a gun shop and made off with weapons in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, police said.
  — John Leicester, Time, 1 July 2023
• Neither would discuss how much money the teams might make off gambling.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2021
• Yes, the Beatles wanted to hold your hand, but the Stones wanted to pillage your village, make off with its women, and salt the earth on the way out of town.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Carmen and her merry band make off with a truck that then dominates the second and — crashed and burning on its side — third act.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• Thieves made off with $2 million worth of baseball cards at a show in Texas over the weekend, and now the owner is offering a reward to get them back.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Prosecutors say the motive was robbery and that the Mills made off with $140 and some prescription pills.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 29 May 2024
• Thieves made off with such items as a flashlight, backpack with clothes, gift cards, sunglasses and cell phone chargers.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• The thief could have made off with a number of artifacts that were easier to move: At four feet tall, the Buddha weighs roughly 250 pounds.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• Authorities say that Sims and the unidentified man made off with $600, credit cards and the victim’s phone.
  — John H. Tucker, cleveland, 13 July 2023
• The $32 million the island made off those sales constitutes 20% of its total revenue.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2014
• According to Pollard, the burglars, who struck the home on Oct. 8, made off with such items as clothes, electronics and Gott’s two guitars.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• These days, though, the biggest story about welfare cheats isn’t about the poor making off with a few dollars in undeserved aid.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• Three men make off with a huge amount of cash from a Harlem bookmaking operation, killing five gangsters (two of whom are Mafiosi) and two cops.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Mario movie may have made off with $1.36 billion, but real heads know rupees have always been harder to come by in the Zelda series.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
• Apparently this isn't the first time someone has tried to make off with a truckload of pistachios.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 23 June 2021
• Police later said the criminals made off with about $1,600 worth of copper cable.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024