How to Use out of in a Sentence

out of

preposition
  • But there's more than one way to get the most out of those daily steps.
    Kristin Canning, Health, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Puryear is out of the hospital but will have to have surgery at a later date.
    CBS News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Goldberg asked before plugging the book, getting a laugh out of Clinton.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Authorities identified three out of four of the victims killed by the gunfire.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Some of our regional malls are owned by retail management companies based out of New York, others are owned by local cities.
    Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In the clip announcing the new release, Em walks into a convenience store and pulls a carton of milk out of the refrigerator.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
  • What should everyone else be reading / playing / watching / buying / downloading / building out of Legos right now?
    David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The journey out of it is a bit rougher, both in terms of the narrative of Morrison’s film and the actual trajectory of Shields’ real life.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
  • It was shot with amateurs using verité footage and is the best example of how to make a virtue out of necessity, to find a narrative form that would never happen in a big budget movie.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Isaacman, the mission commander, and Gillis will then open the hatch and float briefly out of the capsule, connected by umbilical cords that will supply them with oxygen.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Another key to the rise of Punjabi music out of Surrey is the lucrative Punjabi wedding market.
    Devon Leger, SPIN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Even more bizarrely, some rocks can flow like a liquid while remaining completely solid—like serpentinite, an attractive green stone that oozes cold out of the Earth’s crust in ultraslow motion.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The suspect then used the car to ram his way out of a parking space and leave the mall lot.
    cleveland, 16 July 2023
  • These are the parents who zap the fun right out of spirit days.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 June 2024
  • As the truck neared the volunteers, her friend jumped out of the way, but Schwartz couldn’t move.
    USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe that will be the swing that gets the Dodgers slugger out of a three-week slump, or maybe not.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2024
  • That has offered hope for some of those waiting for a way out of the war zone.
    NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • My kid was out of school and so was my husband, a teacher.
    Maggie Downs, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Signed as a free agent out of Ohio State in the spring of 2022, he’s added some size and weight since the start of his days in Columbus.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Everybody in that room was in tears out of shock or fear.
    Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Taurus April 20-May 20 Your friends can bring you out of the darkness right now.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • After pulling his car out of the ditch, the police released the driver.
    Courtney Testa, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But Cliff, who had one of the great voices of the classic rocksteady and reggae era, sings the hell out of it.
    David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • Critics were given the first four episodes (out of six) to review.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The knock cut and bloodied Contreras’ scalp, forcing him out of the game.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • But Take Note Our tester noted that these felt very tight out of the packaging and on first wear.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The play capped off a 75-yard drive including a 46-yard catch and run by Jamal Haynes from out of the backfield.
    The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2023
  • He was pulled after recording the first out of the sixth inning, leaving two men on.
    Isaac Azout, Miami Herald, 12 May 2024
  • It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2023

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