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Watson, then 16, and a friend forced their way into a Plantation home armed with a gun, fought with one of the residents and made off with a video camera and cellphone worth $575.—Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 Two people made off with $1,200 in roasts, steaks and ribs from a Safeway supermarket in Cupertino, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 5 news release.—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025 The line of dialogue was famously improvised by Grant, playing a mild-mannered paleontologist driven to near insanity by Katharine Hepburn’s heiress Susan, who has made off with his clothing, thus forcing him to wear the fur-accented sleepwear.—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024 The Chinese personnel were also accused of destroying most of the ship's equipment and making off with the crew's catch.—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for make off
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