Sentence examples for off the remnants from inspiring English sources

And it might be some time before they actually finish off the remnants of the regime.

Locals were buying what remained of Comstock's plastic seed racks (replaced by wood) and carting off the remnants of a Christmas store.

Fifteen years ago, he was selling off the remnants of Britain's industrial base, but de-industrialisation has gone so far there is little left to sell.

The move came one day after a weeklong auction in Brunei that sold off the remnants of his bankrupt development company.

Trump wants the Pentagon to withdraw U.S. troops after the Kurdish-led militia that Washington is backing in Syria finishes off the remnants of the Islamic State terrorist group.

That is, as the star's outer layers are blown off, the remnants collapse in on themselves, forming a small, compacted core so dense that a single teaspoon of matter would weigh a billion tons.

We started off with a tour of the remnants of the well-maintained old German botanical garden (although there are no labels on the plants), with its jacaranda-lined roads, century-old cinnamon trees and views of tea estates in the distance.

("Graptolite" comes from the Greek, meaning "written rock"; the term was coined by Linnaeus, who dismissed graptolites as mineral encrustations trying to pass themselves off as the remnants of animals).

It was a gurgling set off by the remnants of the food they had swallowed a few hours earlier, made louder by the echo chamber of an empty stomach.

For all her ambition, Ms. Beckham is not ready to slough off the last remnants of her working-class past.

April 17 2012 Some days, it seems as if the auction houses are in the business of selling off the luxurious remnants of past lives.