carried away

past tense of carry away

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carried away Video from the rescue shows them being carefully carried away before making the nearly 400-kilometer (250-mile) trip to Nandankanan Zoo. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 The club, the fans and the media let themselves get carried away dreaming about the possibilities of club president Florentino Perez’s latest galacticos project. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Weather matters more than duration Don't get carried away with duration at the expense of clear skies. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2026 They were later carried away on stretchers to pathology vans. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Nothing is off limits, in theory, but sometimes fans can get carried away and cross a line that causes some hurt feelings. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026 Judge’s body was later carried away by a group of first responders. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 In Maren Hassinger’s hands, bits of frayed industrial wire pinned to a wall come to resemble dandelion bristles carried away by the breeze. — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026 Supposing the river was to flood, the pines and willows along its banks would be uprooted and carried away in a matter of moments. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carried away
Verb
  • An additional woman, 61, was hospitalized for medical complications unrelated to traumatic injuries, bringing the total number transported to 11.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The truck driver was not injured and remained on scene, while the rider was transported to Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital and pronounced deceased.
    — Felix Rodriguez, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • After a multi-year hiatus from the show, Burgess pleased the judges with her first routine with Cameron.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The manner in which Marcos Llorente’s opener for Atletico transpired would not have pleased Andoni Iraola, even if the Spaniard needs time for his team to understand his out-of-possession demands.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • And his fight against Black housing development in Newark’s North Ward delighted many of his neighbors.
    — Mark Krasovic, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Past visitors include different types of tuna that have delighted sport fishers, and open-ocean red crabs that can change the poop color of birds that feast on them.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • When one of her for-hire guardians speaks of her past as a musician, playing the pianoforte (piano) for enraptured listeners, Adelaide is entranced.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • For the last two years, the story has entranced showgoers with its heartbreaking portrayal of an imperfect love story.
    — Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Fans of the genre will be satisfied by the whodunit – the question of how something happened and the mysterious nature of it.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Jil Sander was a perfect distillation of itself and satisfied a modernist appetite.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • My daughter was enchanted by the Balinese rice-on-the-forehead ritual for good fortune that is a part of the arrival, and the front desk staff happily indulged her request to do it again—multiple times a day.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Perhaps too enchanted, as Pitt lost his date on the dance floor that night.
    — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Hill blasted out to just over 3 feet, and when Watts missed his 18-foot birdie putt, Hill quickly rapped it in and the celebration was on.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
  • What had been promoted as an appearance turned into a performance, with the Wu-Tang member running through songs from his catalog as fans rapped along.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Kember, who grew up in a Catholic household, and Pierce, the son of a proselytizer, were fascinated by spirituality.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
  • In 2008, passionate surfer Tim Russo purchased the property, renamed it, and set out to organically grow it into a resort full of wonder where serious surfers and travelers fascinated with the surf lifestyle could vacation happily.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Carried away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carried%20away. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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