Sentence examples for crossed it off from inspiring English sources
The clerk crossed it off the list.
I crossed it off the to-do list, reluctantly.
According to his testimony to the Pollard inquiry, he "received reassurances" that it had been killed for "editorial or journalistic reasons" and "crossed it off my list and went off to worry about something else".
When he announced in January his intention to seek the seat that Mr. Dodd was giving up after 30 years, Democrats crossed it off their list of Senate seats that would be difficult to defend.
The name of the popular writer Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) was on a blacklist until Stalin himself saw it there and crossed it off, saying: "He's a good children's poet".
Dropping by Stonehenge for ten minutes and then announcing you've crossed it off your bucket list suggests that seeing Stonehenge — or beholding the Taj Mahal, or visiting the Louvre, or observing a pride of lions slumbering under a tree in the Maasai Mara — is something that, having been done, can be considered done with.
Many people hear about Bhutan, fall in love with the idea of trekking in its mountain passes and... mentally cross it off their bucket list when they hear about the travel costs involved.
But for a variety of reasons, including its lack of proximity to San Francisco, I had yet to cross it off my list.
