8 example sentences using away.
Away used in a sentence
Away in a sentence as an adjective
The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us.
There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll.
It's your preference for living by yourself, for quiet moments away from others, for nights spent at home, watching Netflix or playing games.
Whether someone is the first person someplace or not, people and culture become entrenched and people don't want to see that culture change away from them.
Away in a sentence as an adverb
He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said "My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him.
Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
But in languages without bounds checks, that logic can fall away as the computer starts reading or executing raw memory, which is no longer connected to specific variables or lines of code in your program.
> "Facebook creeps me out."Whether or not you agree with his decision, having Notch pull away from talks with you creates an instant credibility "situation".It's also noteable that Notch had been meeting with the Oculus team just two weeks ago[0], was tweeting about them in rather gushing terms[1] and seemed incredibly inspired to work on VR ideas[2].He is now the personification of the a near universal feeling of betrayal in the community.
Away definitions
not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"
used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"
(of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"
See also: outside
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
See also: forth
from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
See also: aside
out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century"
indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"
so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
freely or at will; "fire away!"
in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"
in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"
See also: aside
in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"
See also: aside