Sentence examples for would work off from inspiring English sources

"When my wife and I entertained, we would work off of it.

At the urging of the automotive industry, the Bush administration asked the agency to change the rule to allow a cheaper "indirect" system that would work off the antilock braking system.

Rather than a big bang of bankruptcy and reorganization, his plan, so far as we can tell at this stage, would increase government ownership of troubled banks in spurts, on a case-by-case model, and it would work off the banks' bad assets in a sort of running, improvised partnership with private investors.

These cheap transmitters would work off existing cellular phone networks.

Several laws dealt with indentured servitude, a legal status whereby a person would work off debts or be given training in exchange for a period of unrecompensed service.

I'd make a model of an idea, and we'd work off that. .

(The alternative would be to work off the pre-May 1948 lines, which would put the Negev and parts of the Galilee on the table).

George Scalise, the association's president, predicted that chip makers would continue to work off accumulated inventory for three more months before quarterly growth resumes in the last quarter of 2001.

His only motivation for taking another such beating would be to work off the millions in debt he owes to his adviser, Shelly Finkel; to his backer, Showtime; and, presumably, to his lawn- and pet-care proprietors.

He or she would not simply work off his or her jobs but could even intervene in the order sequence according to the particular situation.

We'd try to work off whatever meat the saucier was cooking.