Sentence examples similar to knocking off time from inspiring English sources

Some people associate crosswords with respectability: the suburbanite knocking off the Times on the 7.22 from Twyford, or the major's wife tidying away her coffee morning and settling in to the Telegraph.

But she knew kids, and lulled us into daily peaceful acquiescence before knocking-off time with tales from Moomin Valley.

Their chances of advancing to the finals and knocking off the two-time defending champion Lakers may come down to whether Lakers Coach Phil Jackson can find a way to neutralize Bibby and Jackson.

To underscore the dry but distinctly morbid wit of this series, Slider and company also fool with brainy puns, slang and other wordplay, which keeps them sane when it becomes evident here that some big-time criminal is knocking off all the small-time competition.

Then it's time to knock off.

The 1978 Yankees caught the Red Sox, of course; won a one-game playoff with them; knocked off the Royals again, this time in four games, and then beat the Dodgers again in a six-game World Series.

The winners may be knocked off and replaced at any time by a new firm, but the speed at which technology allows us to implement and disseminate new ideas makes market share gains much easier to achieve quickly.

Richmond does it again as a low seed, this time knocking off No. 5 Vanderbilt.

Not incidentally, it is also a way to signal to Democrats that Sanders is their best hope for knocking off Trump, at a time when many fear he is the opposite.

Everyone was knocking off Manolo at the time in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Now, however, counterfeiters the world over are going to have a harder time knocking off Benjamins (or so U.S. officials hope).