drawing (off)

present participle of draw (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drawing (off)
Verb
  • Soundbar Deals The Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus instantly enhances the sound on any TV without taking over your entire living room or draining your wallet.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, large swathes of Punjab and Sindh provinces, both key cotton-growing districts, are still draining out.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 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
  • Instead of pumping in conventional air conditioning, it was surrounded by proprietary glass panes filled with cooled water.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once you’re done sucking away all that excess hair, use the detachable clipper to trim the hair without being tethered by a cord.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, the Internet has gone about its immemorial business of destroying all incumbent forms of media; not content with vampirizing print, the digital space began sucking the life from pay-TV a dozen years ago.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Drawing (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drawing%20%28off%29. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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