as in to transport
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
the beauty of the music carried him away
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Recent Examples of carry away
One person lies in the street, his head cracked open in a pool of blood, while a boy is carried away on an improvised stretcher.
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Mahmoud Atef, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
During the most recent climbing season, according to a recent report from AFP, Airlift’s drones carried away 660 pounds of trash from the mountain’s Base Camp 1.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Frelick will always be a much better fielder and faster runner than Matos, so don’t get carried away, but the offensive games have some surface-level similarities.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Sitting with a friend on a recent visit to Father Forgive Me, two bees landed at our table and swiftly carried away a piece of my dinner companion’s ham.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Mahmoud Atef, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
During the most recent climbing season, according to a recent report from AFP, Airlift’s drones carried away 660 pounds of trash from the mountain’s Base Camp 1.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Frelick will always be a much better fielder and faster runner than Matos, so don’t get carried away, but the offensive games have some surface-level similarities.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Sitting with a friend on a recent visit to Father Forgive Me, two bees landed at our table and swiftly carried away a piece of my dinner companion’s ham.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carry away
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First responders transported him to the U of L Hospital for treatment.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
14 Sep. 2025
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He was transported to a hospital in critical condition before he was later pronounced dead.—
Landon Mion , Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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And the words, while sparse, move together with pauses and spaces to form a musical, entrancing pace or rhythm, one that is distinct from everyday speech and which the reader must be willing to follow.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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White’s anthology series has entranced viewers since its premiere in 2021.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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To satisfy this demand, Nebius will supply Microsoft with dedicated capacity from a new data center located in Vineland, New Jersey, starting later this year.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Other tasters agreed these anchovies had a meaty texture, which made each fillet a satisfying several bites.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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The guests were delighted by the surprise fireworks show.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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Girl Violence, the result of that introspection, announces Strauss’ new chapter with songs that bloom and twist around themselves, echoing the fear and delight and increasing clear-eyedness that came along with each fresh experience.—
Maura Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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Each new company will be under pressure to cut costs to please Wall Street, reinforcing the very short-term thinking that got Kraft Heinz into trouble in the first place.—
Hank Cardello,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The character became shorthand for difficult-to-please bosses no matter the industry, and Streep earned one of her many Oscar nominations for her performance.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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IndieWire has talked to people who loved or hated the film, with rarely any opinion in between and certainly never without a strong response of some kind from anyone — whether out of boredom or raptures over Aster’s in-your-face replay of our worst COVID-times memories.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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One is littered with long-dead corpses suspended in the air as if they were raptured.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Apr. 2025
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Born Vincenzo Camille in the town of Essex, just outside of London, Fakemink began making music at the age of 10, and started rapping and releasing music around 2019 under the name 9090gate.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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Busta also received an assist from Papoose and Joyner Lucas, all of them sharing lyrical wordplay and seamless tradeoffs as Busta swung between his trademark dichotomy of rapping to gruff bellowing.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Carry away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carry%20away. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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