Sentence examples for off the continents from inspiring English sources

The grandfather from the Isle of Man has steadily ticked off the continents' highest points since then.

When winds blow iron-rich dust off the continents, they give the plant-like algae floating on the surface of the oceans added nutrients to grow faster.

In winter the prevailing winds carry cold air masses off the continents in temperate and subarctic latitudes, cooling the adjacent surface seawater below that of the mid-ocean level.

Over the past century, more and more fresh river water has been spilling off the continents into the oceans.

"Some people have written off the Continent completely," Mr. Rimer said.

It's the sort of homely, no-frills South American cuisine that's not easy to find off the continent.

He benefited, too, from a widespread neglect of Africa in the 1990s, when outside governments largely wrote off the continent as too poor and troubled to matter.

You know — greenhouse gases, warming oceans, trillion-ton icebergs breaking off the continent like a middle-aged man losing hair in the sink.

With the weather going down and a sinking feeling that we'd miss our flight off the continent, I stopped writing and hunkered down for a few days of tent-bound living.

We didn't shuffle off the continent until a hundred and twenty thousand years ago or less, but it turns out that earlier hominins, Homo erectus, had been spilling out of there for ages already, making stone tools and, eventually, fires.

Our shift also likes to put out any leftovers we have from previous nights to reduce waste since EVERYTHING we throw away must be shipped off the continent and that costs money.