steal away

"This is a significant step forward in our journey towards a future where high blood pressure doesn't have to steal away life."

Their ambitions of successive Champions League group campaigns had not so much been stolen away as ripped violently from them.

“I want that song to feel like an event, like the show was just stolen away from Hunter by Oscar,” explained Iconis.

Secretively working in an empty electrical workroom in her housing complex, Vicaria steals away in the night, literally and figuratively, to work on her project of reanimation.

And private, regional public and for-profit universities, facing enrollment crises of their own, are competing to steal away high school graduates who might be considering community college.