Sentence examples for off for a vacation from inspiring English sources

Then he offered a smile of contentment and headed off for a vacation.

Like many New Jerseyans, he had taken off for a vacation.

Last year, Father Lopez had planned on taking July off for a vacation in Puerto Rico, where he was born.

It didn't matter that at the time he was sitting in a plane on the runway, about to take off for a vacation in Las Vegas.

Wheeling a suitcase behind them, Rhoda and Mark L. Berenson looked like any retired couple off for a vacation as they waited in an American Airlines ticket line at La Guardia Airport yesterday afternoon.

LAS VEGAS — As Senator Barack Obama headed off for a vacation in Hawaii last week, Senator John McCain was left in the continental United States with the Iowa State Fair to himself.

Time sick, late or on vacation: Never sick or late; took a week off for a family vacation on the Jersey Shore.

Before Mr. Lagos took off this week for a vacation at his country house outside Santiago, he announced almost a barrage of policy plans.

"What do you say if Blackmun & Burger take off for a winter vacation -- traveling light, i.e. without wives who so often abandon us?" he wrote in September 1958.

Pomerantz has also canceled plans to take a week off for a beach vacation this summer and doesn't expect to take as many long weekends away from work as he would have otherwise.

To see Betty Naomi Wattss) arrive in a pink cardigan at LAX and gasp with girlish anticipation at the treasures of Hollywood is like watching Fay Wray setting off for an island vacation.