carry away

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Recent Examples of carry away As for an outright upset here, let’s not get carried away. Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 No one should get too carried away and expect Rodgers to have that kind of performance week in and week out. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Military rescue teams fanned out across the region, the defence ministry said in a statement, with 40 flights carrying away 420 wounded and dead. Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025 Just 12 inches of rushing water can carry away most cars. Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carry away
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carry away
Verb
  • This process repeats roughly a dozen times each day, with some trucks transporting grain or fertilizer to customers in Illinois and Minnesota.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • He was transported to Tennova Healthcare by Montgomery County EMS.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Ruidoso, New Mexico, the pounding hooves of racehorses have entranced crowds from across Texas and New Mexico every summer, pumping in millions of dollars from the All-American Derby, Oaks and Futurity races and the steady hum of seasonal jobs that carry this mountain village.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • As Lucky, Thornton is a source of sly humor, then entrancing with his hefty first-act monologue.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Egg, Pesto, and Mozzarella Sandwich The egg, pesto, and mozzarella sandwich can help satisfy you until your next meal or snack.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 8 Oct. 2025
  • An agreement to revise the charter system in ways that satisfy both sides, and other teams, could be a pathway to a deal.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Spears has been sharing dancing videos on her Instagram account that have delighted some fans and worried others for at least five years.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As if what delights and obsesses us must have a purpose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s so much to love about this crowd-pleasing appetizer—here are a few ways to dial up the flavor, save time, and enjoy this dip in new ways.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But Moyes will be pleased by the impact made by his substitutes against Palace, Alcaraz chief among them.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, nonbelievers create humorous content, featuring videos of empty clothes draped over furniture or laid out on the street, suggesting they were abandoned by those who were raptured.
    Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The movie follows Patty Myers (Patty Dunning), a casual Christian belonging to a theologically liberal church who's left behind after millions are raptured.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sixteen years passed — an eternity by rap’s standards — as Pusha T became a successful solo artist and label executive while Malice took a hiatus from rapping to pursue his faith.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Just hours after the app’s launch on Tuesday, memes created using its AI video-generation technology were already spreading to other social networks—including, for example, a video of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rapping from the inside of a toilet bowl.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Carry away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry%20away. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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