Sentence examples for off lengthy from inspiring English sources

I was caught and prosecuted, paid large fines and worked off lengthy community sentences.

But, acting as his own defense lawyer, he has already fired off lengthy motions, letters and requests in recent days.

The same mayor and the same police chief were very much in charge this time as well, ticking off lengthy lists of steps, with dull and self-serving political statements only protruding when other politicians managed to grab time before news cameras.

Some groups are already taking action to head off lengthy court battles over the next round of redistricting after the 2020 census.

The Islanders had two goals waved off after lengthy reviews.

(She's just broken off a lengthy and profoundly frustrating affair with a married man).

He turned pages as he read from a long prepared speech, but then veered off into lengthy, improvised digressions.

Shares of Computer Associates, which fought off a lengthy proxy challenge this summer by the Texas billionaire Sam Wyly, rose 2 cents, to $27.92.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent in troops hellbent on punishment, and in so doing he set off a lengthy and violent regional civil war.

Ferris is a cracking writer, but he does have a tendency to veer off into lengthy digressions about religious doctrine, or philosophising from the curmudgeonly O'Rourke.

As many an angry legislator in Albany will testify, there were several assignments that Gov. George E. Pataki's Commission on Education Reform did not scratch off its lengthy to-do list.