Sentence examples for seeing someone off from inspiring English sources

"It should be more like seeing someone off on a great adventure.

The firm's local staff caught the mistake: to "give a clock" in Chinese sounds the same as "seeing someone off to his end".

Yet again I found myself seeing someone off at the airport - as if I didn't have enough of it last week.

You get off your horse and skin it, draping the skin over the back of your horse before seeing someone off in the distance that looks stranded.

Remember the good old days when if you were seeing someone off, you could nonchalantly walk all the way to the gate with them?

By R. H. Lampee and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 9 A man walking back cross-town after having seen someone off from one of the North River piers, was accosted by a gloomy man who said, "Are you a cynic like all the rest, or will you give me a dime?" View Article By Troy Patterson By Phil Klay By John Cassidy By Amy Davidson Sorkin.

Akhmatova wrote that by 1935 every time she went to see someone off at the train station as they went into exile, she'd find herself greeting friends at every step as so many of St Petersburg's intellectual and cultural figures would be leaving on the same train.

The fine, sunny weekends came when I was off seeing someone else's garden.

Watching South Africa brings the tragic, helpless, hopeless feeling of seeing someone about to fall off a cliff without being able to do anything about it.

It felt like a big risk because I knew that it would probably have pissed me off seeing someone else do it.

And this year didn't seem to be looking much better -- while the young star is seeing someone now, she was headed off to London this weekend to do press for the movie.