carrying away

present participle of carry away

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carrying away 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 Drool was evaporating off them, carrying away heat. Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrying away
Verb
  • In the coming months, Bechtel’s project team will continue feeding waste and glass-forming materials into the melters, filling stainless-steel containers, and transporting them to the Hanford Site’s Integrated Disposal Facility.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One of the vehicles involved in the crash was a van transporting dozens of cats to an animal shelter, according to Furkids Animal Rescue and Shelters.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Optimistic, people-pleasing examiner Colette (Harriet Dyer) is giving out yet another exam.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The video-sharing phenomenon has captivated billions, upending old ways of doing things, generating vast revenues, and delighting people around the world.
    Merrill Fabry, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The popular anime franchise Berserk, based on the manga created by Kentaro Miura, has been delighting fans since the 1990s.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • They’ve been almost monomaniacally determined to deliver a climactic final eight episodes that provide not only a feeling of resolution, but of satisfying inevitability.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This picture book is immersive, evoking the itch of a sweater or the satisfying softness of a banana (as opposed to other intolerably crunchy snacks).
    Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As Lucky, Thornton is a source of sly humor, then entrancing with his hefty first-act monologue.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Then the picture begins to blur before coming back into clear focus to reveal Novak, still enchanting at 92, standing in a room filled with her paintings.
    Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Among them were countless era-defining releases that are still among the best movies ever made—of any genre—from the haunting Rebecca to the gripping Rear Window, and the ravishing Vertigo to the hair-raising Psycho.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But each night, Hero’s stories before bedtime prove so entrancing that Manfred fails to go through with any seducing, let alone ravishing.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then Chico would start rapping over it, too.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the viral video, Breyer is rapping by The Game featuring 50 Cent.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Carrying away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrying%20away. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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