How to Use off the ground in a Sentence

off the ground

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  • Pick fallen fruit off the ground, though opossums can climb, too.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • Staking helps keep the stems upright and the flowers off the ground.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 July 2026
  • Trim shrubs so they are lifted off the ground, thin out dense ground cover, and keep plants from touching the house.
    — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 14 July 2026
  • The struggle was so intense that the child was lifted off the ground, police said in their statement.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • As a shark, John has invested in a number of businesses, helping entrepreneurs get them off the ground.
    — Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
  • And as Hunter bounded to the dugout, Bonds lifted him off the ground and flung him over his shoulder like a bag of mulch or a sack of potatoes.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 13 July 2026
  • Kitten heels are the exception because being an inch off the ground isn’t a gravitational risk.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 19 July 2026
  • Launching by plane also means an easy liftoff—just gas up and go, as opposed to the extensive preparations necessary to get a rocket off the ground.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026
  • The actor-comedian arguably played a more pivotal role in getting the ceremony off the ground.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Another major perk is that the bed is raised nearly a foot off the ground for extra storage space, so she’s been able to squeeze all kinds of containers and bins under there.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Meta is still trying to get its Muse Spark, a multimodal reasoning model, off the ground.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 2 July 2026
  • Safety Ji’Ayir Brown did a good job of digging a short pass from Purdy off the ground for an interception.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 28 July 2026
  • Investigators said Vasey grabbed the girl's arm while her mother held onto the other arm, lifting the child off the ground during the struggle.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
  • Trellising plants keeps them lifted off the ground, reducing pest infestations and improving airflow to reduce the risk of powdery mildew.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026
  • The girl's mother grabbed her other arm and tried to prevent Vasey from taking her daughter, and the struggle over the girl was so significant that she was lifted off the ground.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
  • To the casual observer, which is to say virtually everyone, a guardrail is just a long wavy strip of steel, about a foot wide, set thirty inches or so off the ground, which keeps a car from going off the road.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • After several years of failing to get a reunion off the ground, Faith No More will finally take the stage again in 2027.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2026
  • Back in 2015, Musk and Altman worked together closely to get OpenAI off the ground.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • Marvel later tried to get a Ghost Rider TV series off the ground, but reportedly canceled those plans in 2019.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 July 2026
  • Wonder Man follows aspiring actor Simon Williams (Abdul-Mateen), who is struggling to get his career off the ground.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • The Disney+ series follows aspiring actor Simon Williams (Abdul-Mateen), who is struggling to get his career off the ground.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
  • So in this version, the company created a larger footprint with a deeper center of gravity, boosting the club's moment of inertia without compromising its ability to sweep shots cleanly off the ground.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • When Barrett got to the corner of Elder Creek and Bradshaw roads, an eyewitness pointed out that one of the vehicles had crashed into a tree, and was lodged several feet off the ground, covered in tree branches, the court document said.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
  • For instance, space tourism has gotten off the ground; wealthy people can book trips to suborbital space, and the super-rich can fly all the way to Earth orbit, as the experience of NASA chief Jared Isaacman shows.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company founded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, got its towering Starship rocket off the ground for just the second time in 2026 from South Texas.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 July 2026
  • However, the moment in Dallas quickly escalated when a superfan, dressed as Duff's character in the 1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, joined her onstage and suddenly lifted her off the ground.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • In 2023, Afram sued director Martin Scorsese, accusing him of pocketing $500,000 to serve as an executive producer and then doing nothing to help get the project off the ground.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 July 2026
  • Earth Fire Alliance, the nonprofit group behind FireSat, got the project off the ground with $69 million in grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, Google and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
    — Eric Niiler, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • At least two data center developers in rural Johnson County working to get projects off the ground have promised benefits to their surrounding community, including promoting partnerships with Johnson County Community College.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • The incentives To get Aldi off the ground, the development agreement proposes creating a Community Improvement District and using Industrial Revenue Bonds to help reimburse the project costs.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026

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