Sentence examples for off the plates from inspiring English sources

She and her father ate off the plates meant for the priests who visited.

When people tried prying off the plates, she cut the electricity to the outlets off completely.

The waitstaff never seem to have the faintest idea as to who ordered which dish; instead, they adopt a tactic of auctioning off the plates.

I opted for the clam strips, then poached off the plates of my neighbors, working my way through a serviceable tuna melt, an O.K. cheeseburger and a very average chicken breast smothered in mushrooms, onions and Swiss cheese.

Last Wednesday night, he hardly appeared in the dining room and the flavors in his rustic Tuscan (and not so Tuscan) dishes, which had been sound asleep, were suddenly leaping off the plates.

After three hours of egg-laying, adults were taken off the plates and embryos were allowed to hatch and grow at 20°C.

Worms that crawled off the plates, burst at the vulva or died because progeny hatched in utero were excluded from final statistical analyses.

Animals that crawled off the plates or died due to internal hatching were censored.

Worms that crawled off the plates were not included in the analysis.

Animals that had internal hatching, or that crawled off the plates, were censored.

Animals that crawled off the plates were not included in the analysis (Kaplan Meyer).