Sentence examples for off from the house from inspiring English sources

Indeed, part of the success of proscenium theatres has been that the stage area, where fires are most likely to start, can be sealed off from the house through the use of a fire curtain that closes the arch.

"The office is also the utility room – it's cut off from the house, so the kids can't start tapping away [on the computer], or start posting all sorts on Facebook".

On Monday, the aspirants got a quick course in the game, like shuffleboard or boccie on pebbled ice, and its own glossary: bonspiels (tournaments), hacks (the rubber device each shooter pushes off from) the house (the target, 12 feet in diameter) and the rock (the granite stone, weighing around 42 pounds).

The distinctions between fair and unfair game, between vermin and protected species, between friend and foe - all such distinctions have no significance for a cat, which sets off from the house in search of songbirds, field mice, shrews and other harmless and necessary creatures with no thought for anything save the taste of their blood.

He handed it back, then pulled off and away from the house.

Firewood should be stored away from the house, off the ground and protected from rain.

A barnlike garage with a workshop is set off from the main house.

EVENTUALLY the little rear building at 152 East 38th Street was cut off from the row house at No. 150, although the curving side wing still sticks into the garden of No. 150.

"By the time it really happened, that Wednesday night when he and Condi got in the van to drive off from the ranch house, I was not nervous," Mrs. Bush said.

In its registration statement, PWC Consulting even says that some of its clients are considering dropping its services unless it officially splits off from the audit house and PWC's non-consulting partners have divested.

The police had removed a sawed-off shotgun from the house.