Sentence examples for quietly off from inspiring English sources

After one of these rushes, I noticed Mohammed standing quietly off to the side.

Mr. Spinella's Jaques merely prefers thinking to dancing, and marches quietly off in search of more cerebral food.

Mr. Abbott would not go quietly off to prison, however, and neither would his words fade.

Hayne sits quietly off in a corner, occupying the locker next to 49ers running back stars Bush and Carlos Hyde – the men he can legitimately aspire to replace.

As a friend of Dr. Colvin's shamelessly flirted with Ms. Stewart and her two travel companions, Ms. Stewart began noticing Dr. Colvin, who was standing quietly off to the side, immersed in a Russian guidebook.

In Midtown Manhattan, a small wind-battered huddle of tourists outside the Circle Line Ferry ticket office trudged quietly off, after the terminal's operations manager told them that the day's rides had been canceled by the Coast Guard.

TESCO's biggest investor has quietly off-loaded a large chunk of its stake in the embattled supermarket in the run-up to Christmas.

My usual techniques for making friends, honed over scores of globe-trotting trips, weren't working: I'd stop in a pub for lunch and humbly, quietly, off-handedly explain my mission ("I'm driving around Ireland with no map, trying to get lost"), hoping the bartender would respond, or that I'd be overheard by someone who'd know just where I needed to go and might even want to accompany me.

All the production elements are top-notch, from the quietly off-kilter set of Catherine Martin to the vivid lighting of Mark Shelton, which creates some of the most striking moments in the show as the shadows cast by Poprishchin loom in disjointed fashion over everything Rush does.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has reported that the society has quietly sold off millions of dollars in artifacts to pay off credit lines.

Then quietly slope off back to bed..