Sentence examples for off the ironing from inspiring English sources

Her most memorable images have a homespun clarity: Merle peels a freshly ironed blouse off the ironing board "like piecrust"; the sun moves "in and out of the clouds in long basting stitches".

Ask Merrill if she remembered to turn off the iron before she left the house?

His first free throw bounced off the iron and so did the second.

Their plaster façades were flaking off, the iron grilles on the balconies broken or missing.

The well-aimed shells just bounced off the iron plating, like hailstones on a tin shed.

The Devils fired 33 shots against Curtis Joseph, including the three they put off the iron behind the Toronto goalie.

"Cursed image 1783," showing a woman encased in medical equipment with balloons wreathing her face, is from an Associated Press story about a woman in Memphis who died after a power failure shut off the iron lung she'd lived inside for almost sixty years.

Though travel guides sometimes file the region under eastern Europe, locals prefer to think of themselves as central Europe, having long since shaken off the iron curtain and invested in a lift system every bit as modern as that of its Alpine neighbours.

Your cell phone rings and you get a message saying you've left the house without turning off the iron.

Elon Musk, the world's busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling setup he tweeted about last week.

They will ship off the iron via a private port they will also build.