How to Use sign away in a Sentence

sign away

phrasal verb
Definition of sign awaynext
  • To receive the payout, Chagossians were obliged to sign away their right to return.
    — Lorraine Mallinder, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Another signed away his soul for a granola bar, and the fifth did so for a single stamp.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The lab agreed to bankroll the patent, but only if the 59-year-old scientist signed away his financial rights.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • At 16, Kelly’s mother skipped town and signed away custody of her daughter to a stranger.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Now, just one survivor owns it Parkland school shooter signs away rights to his name.
    — South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • The contract signs away your right to negatively review the game.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
  • At the end of the day, the flight is just a means to an end — an adventure, a celebration, or an occasion is just a seatbelt sign away.
    — Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Here’s the latest forecast track of Hurricane Beryl Parkland school shooter signs away rights to his name.
    — South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • In some cases, as Lummis alludes to, parents were forced to sign away their rights to their children for as long as the government chose to hold them.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Tyler Huntley, who was signed away from the Baltimore Ravens practice squad, gets his chance to lead Miami tonight.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In recent years, the network showing the game has been unable to sign away its last commercial berth until just days before the Big Game.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The service requires customers to sign away some of their data protection rights, The Post reported in May.
    — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Goodenough patented his battery in 1980, signing away his financial claim to it in order to fund the patent.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2023
  • Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac, is two signs away from Scorpio, an aspect known as a sextile in astrology.
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
  • There’s little reason to sign away that power to a third party, and even less reason to divide that money with everyone else.
    — Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Under the conservatorship, Oher claimed, he has been deprived of the rights to his name, image and likeness on top of millions of dollars the family got for signing away the rights to the book the film is based on.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The two-way contract also prevents Johnson from being signed away by another team.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • Requires companies receiving a rebate to sign away ability to later sue the state for more.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Corrine Casanova lived only 19 days after signing away her home.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
  • Players under Exhibit 10 contracts cannot be signed away by other teams.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Some actors fear a possible future in which studios will pressure them to sign away their likeness and their digital double will take work away from them.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 25 July 2023
  • For the better part of two decades, since Baltimore leaders signed away the rights to a 14-acre swath of West Baltimore beneath their homes, the residents of Poppleton have gotten used to waiting.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
  • Trending Nationally Parkland school shooter signs away rights to his name.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2024
  • However, the court unanimously determined that Adolph could not sign away his right to represent his peers in a class-action lawsuit.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • Zippel said Irving then spoke to Mavericks security staff members before Jazz officials went to check the rabbis' tickets and tell them to put the signs away.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Exhibit 10 deal, which is essentially an invite to training camp, protects Stevens from being signed away by another team.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 21 July 2024
  • Desperate to move her family away from a block in Newark with increasing drug activity, Coleman signed away one type of risk for another.
    — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Users currently sign away their rights to that data in return for the wonderful free goods and services that big technology companies provide.
    — Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2016
  • The Court has long held that companies may force their workers and consumers to sign away their right to sue that company in a real court — one that can conduct a jury trial — and instead have the case heard by a private arbitrator.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 June 2024
  • Many unwed mothers were coerced into signing away their babies even before giving birth.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023

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