Sentence examples for try to come off from inspiring English sources

To her credit -- and this distinguishes her from both her male and female peers -- Ms. Blige doesn't glamorize her impoverished upbringing or try to come off like a razor-tongued lady thug.

He didn't try to come off as too smart.

Of course PR people lie to make their clients look good, and try to come off as forthright as possible.

Don't try to come off them completely, because that can give you seizures if you've been on them long enough, and breathing problems, like I was having.

You think you can bust out in plainclothes and try to come off as just another civilian, but you and I both know this is far from the case.

Nick Barton, chief Executive of drugs charity Action on Addiction, told me that benzodiazepines are often introduced to help people cope with anxiety, but people build up a tolerance, take more and more, and then tend to get a far worse case of anxiety when they try to come off the drugs.

In 2014, Johnny Slager was trying to come off methadone.

I'm not having a vicarious 50s thrill or trying to come off like Manhattan Transfer.

And she went, 'We were all fucking terrified of you.'" Ironically, he had been trying to come off as middle-class.

CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 4 — Senator John McCain is trying to come off as one of those of-the-moment, 21st-century presidential candidates.

While his on-screen persona needs work -- he tries to come off like Robert Stack in "The Untouchables" but more often conjures up W. C. Fields in "The Bank Dick" -- the attorney general's resources as a showman are considerable.