Sentence examples for off sentences from inspiring English sources

Thoughts trail off, sentences double back.

Many prisoners suddenly discover, post-conviction, that they had a drinking problem (participating in rehab shaves time off sentences).

He bites off sentences, or lets them trail toward the obvious point, as if to minimize the drama of what he's saying.

Though given a four-year sentence for tax fraud, Mr Berlusconi benefited from a pardon that wiped three years off sentences for offences committed before 2006.

Ask yourself whether Samuel Eliot Morison could reel off sentences on the order of "But Hillary's celestial ambitions were thwarted by a catch-22".

As it was, he devoted his contrarian instincts and bristling erudition (he knew a startling amount about steam engines, and could toss off sentences in Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian) to his column in the Irish Times, busying himself as well with plays and television scripts.

The judge put off sentencing pending efforts to return him to Hawthorne.

Martha Stewart lost her last chance to stave off sentencing on criminal charges yesterday when a federal judge rejected her request for a new trial.

An entire generation of urban kids is essentially being written off, sentenced to crowded schools, broken families, dangerous streets, and joblessness.

By now, the pace was beginning to trail off, sentence order was going out the window and the rhyme scheme was sounding increasingly strained.

His sawn-off sentences pile up.