off-speed

Definitions

Examples

• Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.

• Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

• A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

• He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

• The jet engine instantly brought two advances over propellers: it doubled the speed and it was far more reliable.

• Really, he had made astonishing speed for one who had tunnelled his way underp.

• A long stretch of smooth ice followed, over which he glided with ever-increasing speed.

• A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

• Never again would he sit behind that wheel rejoicing in the insolence of speed.

• In fact, his appearance was so formidable that Davy did not pause for a second look, but started off at the top of his speed.