Sentence examples for out to rip off from inspiring English sources

Suppliers do not set out to "rip off" or "not deliver".

As the mayor, silent and stoic as he had been throughout the trial, was taken off to the federal detention center in Philadelphia, Robert J. Cleary, the United States attorney, said, "Mayor Milan set out to rip off his constituents, but in the end, he will pay dearly for his crimes".

The nicknames that Goldman sharks tagged on their marks -- "muppets" and "hunting elephants" -- is reminiscent of Get Shorty and the Star Wars-themed nicknames that Enron crooks used as code for their swindles and "special purpose entities" (whose only "special purpose," it turned out, was to rip off employees, defraud investors and bilk consumers).

Running out of shit to rip off, it looks like this is the season where he's finally tripped over himself. .

By selling stock in miscreant client companies, investors are casting out top executives who conspired to rip off stockholders, lawyers who slashed corners and directors in conflicts of interest.

When Mr. Berle reached out to rip a specially designed breakaway suit off Red Buttons, exposing him in his underwear, the underwear went, too.

You want the dealer to know you are prepared, not to make him think that you think he is out to rip you off".

"It makes you almost want to go out and rip off all the 'Support Your Troops' bumper stickers," says Joe Davis, a spokesman for the 1.5 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Detroiters are out to rip us off.

It wasn't like he sat back and tried to figure out ways to rip people off," says Larry Kenswil, Universal Music's technology boss.

Indignant Disposal: Should your umbrella turn inside-out in rough winds, rip off its spokes and be rendered useless, it's not acceptable to throw it on the sidewalk in a fit of pique.