get off

Example Sentences

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“It makes me sick. I want to vomit. If they want to help me, then help me get off welfare by paying a decent wage.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

At least a proposed tie-dye number didn't get off the ground.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 23, 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

A reporter says the protesters are being warned to get off the freeway.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée