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Like, the amount of money the band could make off of one album could be more than potentially the entire career of the band, and that’s not fair to me.—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025 The thieves took less than eight minutes to make off with eight pieces of the French crown jewels, valued at roughly €88 million ($102 million).—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025 One time, Johnson even almost made off with his doppelganger’s car at a local Nashville airport.—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025 Police are looking for a trio of burglars who made off with more than $3 million worth of jewelry from a Queens home, cops said Tuesday.—Nicholas Williams, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for make off
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