Sentence examples for soak off from inspiring English sources

Now students can soak off final-exam stress in one of two hot tubs and watch MTV while brushing their teeth.

She fed them ground beef sautéed in olive oil and onions, beef patties broiled with sage and hamburger cooked in canned tomatoes (on the theory that tomatoes, renowned for their ability to soak off skunk spray, might also freshen breath).

Just in case, we thought it would be a good idea to soak off the label, which in gut-wrenching half-memory I fear may have borne the word "Petrus", and, er, hid the bottle behind a box of cereal on the windowsill.

"I'm of the view that there's no way you're going to limit the size and scope of government unless you deal with the money in the campaigns, because all these people do, who want to soak off the government for more contracts, is hire lobbyists, put a little campaign money, and then you get enormous leverage from it," he said.

After twenty-four house use warm water and soak off the brown paper and soluble PVA glue so you are hopefully left with the mosaic pattern.

Plastic stamps take longer to soak off.

DECORATING DOS AND DON'TS Preparation Do – work from the bottom to the top when soaking off old wallpaper.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, March 16, 1929 P. 15 A gentleman wrote the Quebec Liquor Commission enclosing a label he had soaked off a bottle which bore what purported to be the label of the Quebec organization, together with a piece of the paper the bottle had been wrapped in, and asked if these were genuine.

He found a way to make his set-up the loudest around, using two turntables and a mixer to switch between records (with the labels soaked off, Jamaican-style, to protect his secrets).

Finally the grids were washed with several drops of ddH2O, the excess of liquid was soaked off by Whatman filter paper and air dried.

The radioactive supernatant containing released Cr was soaked off with cotton wool (Scatron Titertek harvesting system; Scatron, Suffolk, UK) and transferred to a Gamma counter (Canberra-Packard, Frankfurt, Germany).