Sentence examples for knocked off from from inspiring English sources

There's an awful lot of very cliched Brazilian slum-porn, gun-porn and poverty-porn, all knocked off from the influential favela masterpiece City of God.

(Nay-sayers and meh-sayers call it something knocked off from TV's 7-Up, and wonder if it would have been praised as much if it was just an actor in incrementally increased ageing makeup.

On the way to the airport to return to New York with my suitcase of black and gray clothes, I stopped at Zara, the Spanish retail chain that sells trendy, cheap clothes knocked off from designer trends.

One day last month, Mr. Simpson, known as Bobby I, knocked off from his part-time job at the Three Pickles deli and headed toward Hendry's Beach, just outside the Santa Barbara city limits, said Robert Lovejoy, who owns the deli with his son, Clay.

(Nay-sayers and meh-sayers call it something knocked off from TV's 7-Up, and wonder if it would have been praised as much if it was just an actor in incrementally increased ageing makeup. This, in the words of Caitlin Moran, is not just missing the point but dozing off on the train and finding the Point was three stations back).

A nurse reported: "My children sell soft drinks at home when they have knocked off from school.

Three times a week, I have to dash off to night school as soon as I knock off from work at 5 30 p.m. Forget about dinner.

I remember my own father, after knocking off from work early, bringing them home wrapped in the newspaper they were served in.

Points are knocked off for a rabbit suffering from "bagginess" or a narrow head, and Bugsy gets disqualified if he has a "mandolin- or arch-shaped back", or "ears thick or rubberlike at base", which seems harsh.

The Okan facility, which it operates in conjunction with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., is also a gathering point for production from several fields, so the attack knocked off output from all of them at once.

Now we need to buck up and "just say no" to cheap, knocked off stuff from dirty coal fired factories.