Below you will find example sentences with "took off". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Took Off in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: off
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "took off" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 100 yards took off the crew, after it took off, flight, last and seat stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with off balls, laid off, pull off and kicked off, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with took off
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Isiah Kiner-Falefa took notice and took off. (8 words)
The guy took his necklace right off him and took off. (11 words)
Bolic Bet Malou was kicked off a Jetstar flight before it even took off. (14 words)
At the time, only her face could be seen, but once she made her way up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grand staircase, she took off her coat and showed off her growing baby bump in a more revealing look (see that photo below)! (45 words)
While it uses Boeing 737s in its fleet, it does not operate the type of 737 Max 9 that has been grounded by US regulators after a door fell off an Alaskan Airlines flight shortly after it took off from Portland, Oregon, last Friday. (44 words)
After Patterson finished up his day on the mound by striking out the side in the fourth, Tipton drew a one-out walk and appeared to be picked off by Storm Parks but he took off towards second and made it in time. (43 words)
Or was it a Final Destination type premonition and he thought he was going to crash and die so he needed to get off the aircraft after it took off? (30 words)
At the time, only her face could be seen, but once she made her way up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grand staircase, she took off her coat and showed off her growing baby bump in a more revealing look (see that photo below)! (45 words)
Example sentences (20)
The guy took his necklace right off him and took off.
Those games took off in the last couple of years, but now the novelty is wearing off, and companies may be better off just focusing on stronger games, she said.
He recently took a flight that took off from the UK, and he had to get this flight at the last minute because of a family emergency.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa took notice and took off.
West then took off on a 12-0 run and took control to bring their score up to 38-24.
Andrea said Nicco had taken the window seat, she took the middle seat and her friend settled into the aisle seat — before the flight took off.
Homeowners looking to downsize from larger Carmel houses into walkable areas took notice, and the company took off.
A second wave of drug overdoses took off in the 2000s when heroin flooded the illicit market, as drug dealers took advantage of a new population of opioid users who either lost access to painkillers or simply sought a better, cheaper high.
The task took off at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin in June 2017, and with a team of forensic experts that analyzed and took samples from the remains.
As Putin faced the biggest threat to his 23-year-reign, two presidential planes reportedly took off from Moscow before switching off their transponders en route to the Tver region, where he has a residence.
At the time, only her face could be seen, but once she made her way up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grand staircase, she took off her coat and showed off her growing baby bump in a more revealing look (see that photo below)!
Bolic Bet Malou was kicked off a Jetstar flight before it even took off.
Armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya's coast, a humanitarian aid group said Friday.
Around midnight, Israeli fans ripped a Palestinian flag off a downtown building and several of them took off their belts and attacked a cab, the document said.
Mercury -- affectionately called Merc by Speer -- took off running along the grassy knoll as his handler fired off a series of "good dog!" affirmations.
She arrived off the scene of the wreck about 4.20am, and, standing out about 100 yards, took off the crew, who left the Konini in the ship’s boats.
While it uses Boeing 737s in its fleet, it does not operate the type of 737 Max 9 that has been grounded by US regulators after a door fell off an Alaskan Airlines flight shortly after it took off from Portland, Oregon, last Friday.
After Patterson finished up his day on the mound by striking out the side in the fourth, Tipton drew a one-out walk and appeared to be picked off by Storm Parks but he took off towards second and made it in time.
Or was it a Final Destination type premonition and he thought he was going to crash and die so he needed to get off the aircraft after it took off?
The Blackbird took off at Beale Air Force Base in California, refueled off of Rota, Spain and then flew over Syria, Jordan and Israel.