get off

Example Sentences

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“As people get older and older, they can’t get off the floor,” he says.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

The small size of the MV Plancius—another Oceanwide vessel—meant that everyone onboard could get off at each site visited in the Antarctic, whose regions have strict visitation limits by size of group and frequency.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

"You can come on the train at Leeds where you bump into people every second, and you get off the train here and there's nobody. There's just scenery."

From BBC • May 1, 2026

In Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” Roy M. Cohn, trying to assuage an angry client he can’t get off the phone, offers theater tickets to a show he knows that this annoying rube will like.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

When the bus arrived at school, Hazel gathered her things slowly, waiting for everyone else to get off.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu