How to Use off the ground in a Sentence

off the ground

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• Pick fallen fruit off the ground, though opossums can climb, too.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• Launching by plane also means an easy liftoff—just gas up and go, as opposed to the extensive preparations necessary to get a rocket off the ground.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026
• The actor-comedian arguably played a more pivotal role in getting the ceremony off the ground.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
• Meanwhile, Meta is still trying to get its Muse Spark, a multimodal reasoning model, off the ground.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 2 July 2026
• Trellising plants keeps them lifted off the ground, reducing pest infestations and improving airflow to reduce the risk of powdery mildew.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026
• For instance, space tourism has gotten off the ground; wealthy people can book trips to suborbital space, and the super-rich can fly all the way to Earth orbit, as the experience of NASA chief Jared Isaacman shows.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 July 2026
• However, the moment in Dallas quickly escalated when a superfan, dressed as Duff's character in the 1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, joined her onstage and suddenly lifted her off the ground.
  — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
• Earth Fire Alliance, the nonprofit group behind FireSat, got the project off the ground with $69 million in grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, Google and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
  — Eric Niiler, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
• At least two data center developers in rural Johnson County working to get projects off the ground have promised benefits to their surrounding community, including promoting partnerships with Johnson County Community College.
  — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
• The incentives To get Aldi off the ground, the development agreement proposes creating a Community Improvement District and using Industrial Revenue Bonds to help reimburse the project costs.
  — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026