Sentence examples for actually took off from inspiring English sources

I pulled the trigger, and with the shot my zebra — all five animals, actually — took off into the bush.

I'm allergic to platinum!' I actually took off the ring that night, and I put Benadryl all over my hand".

The market actually took off and exceeded our expectations, which toward the end of the year made it harder to acquire new projects because it got so hot.

It was also hostile to a proposed deal between Delta Air Lines and US Airways in 2006, which never actually took off.

I was sitting next to a woman who actually took off her shoes and stockings and gave herself a little pedicure.

But Mark went out there again, on a smaller day, a couple of years later, and actually took off on a wave.

"This technology is actually taking off", explained report co-author Sven Teske to the Guardian, "we wanted to highlight that we have a third big technology to fight climate change -- wind, photovoltaics and now CSP".

Or maybe neither will actually take off in the foreseeable future.

"Every single book in here was actually taken off the shelf, tagged and numbered, and then put back".

But the advice they're giving could be just as destructive....Is wage growth actually taking off?

When driving on a blustery autumn day, there was the faint but exciting prospect that your new Bond might actually take off.