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Discover LudwigThe phrase "make away" is grammatically correct and can be used in both spoken and written English
It means to escape or run away quickly. Here are two examples of how to use it: - The thief tried to make away with the stolen goods before the police arrived. - We need to make away from this dangerous area as soon as possible.
Dictionary
make away
verb
To depart, leave; to make off.
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Premier League Away Days (Free) One for football fans in the UK, this: an official Premier League app that aims to make away matches less of a slog.
The UK government's deportation of thousands of inhabitants from the Chagos Islands to make away for a US military base in 1971 was unforgivable, a Foreign Office minister has said.
They rustle sheep, rob a sporting goods van to equip their football team with strips, make away with the grass from the bowling green of (naturally) a Conservative club.
In a scheme of breathtaking audacity a handful of oil tycoons and corrupt government officials nearly managed to make away with a hefty percentage of the nation's petroleum reserves.
There are only a few letters from the most important person in her life, Walter Berry: she destroyed most of his letters to her, and managed, also, to retrieve and make away with hers to him; only four of these slipped through the cull.
Not mere criminals, the felons didn't make away with only typical, easy-to-fence HD gear, but with paperwork and perhaps hardware related to the Red One camera.
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They made away with the entire herd.
He made away with her cow.
(They almost made away with eight tanks, but they couldn't find the keys).
Thus, steel could be made away from a source of liquid iron.
The call was made away from Mr. bin Laden's hideaway.
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