Sentence examples for markings off from inspiring English sources

As moonlight brightened the great clouds of dust that rose from the books, Tian and his friends tore the library markings off translations of Balzac, Faulkner and Tolstoy and stuffed the books in knapsacks.

While its tiny OLED screen, resting forlornly at the bottom of the watch face, wiped a third of the markings off the dial.

But the officers' claims that the police had been fired upon first were brought into question by reporters who discovered that markings passed off as bullet holes from weapons fired at the police were exposed nailheads.

However, farmers cited cases of such markings coming off or just being missed by the person responsible for milking.

One perched momentarily on half a coconut a few feet away, giving us the chance to appreciate his exquisite markings, before flitting off into the forest once again.

His fish, drawn with all the nuances of their scales, fins and markings, could swim off their pages; his long-necked, long-legged birds patrol their turf with true avian rapaciousness (particularly a hunting heron).

Both the 3-way and 4-way switches do not have "ON" and "OFF" markings.

Tropical species of butterflies show larger dot markings on their wings to fend off possible predators and are more active during the wet season than the dry season.

The identifying markings on the munitions had been sanded off, but most of them are manufactured only in Iran, Israeli security officials said.

These markings – designed to ward off evil – were found wherever the structure had to bear the greatest strain.

He said that only a few days before, he had seen nearly an entire Russian-made T-55 tank with Iraqi markings, its muzzle cut off by a blowtorch, sitting on a flatbed truck outside a steel plant near the road from Amman to the main commercial airport.