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How to use doff in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
They cut past their rival by mere feet and she took one hand off the wheel long enough to doff her hat and wave it with a crow of triumph.
But when you remember you're hundreds of feet up in a great chunk of Victorian genius, you doff your hat and remember your place, old bean.
A huge amount of work has gone on behind the scenes, to which we ought to doff our hat, whether it be a topper, a fascinator or a baseball cap.
In this country we prefer our proletarians to doff their caps rather than to assert their fundamental rights.
He wants to stay on as both army chief and president, despite a pledge last year to doff his uniform.
Before entering, according to customs, every body must remove shoes, doff hat, kneel down and bow down before introduction.
There were rumors, too, that nuns might be permitted to doff their habits and move through the world like 'normal' people.
Easy to don and doff, they offer the flexibility and durability your job demands.
When disaster strikes, the members of Wild Com doff their little black bowties and vests and use their powers to aid humanity.
The order of the words indicates a reversal of priorities from the old days, when members of the masses were expected to bow and doff their caps to gentlefolk.
At the beginning of the blockade, Berliners were still a brutalised and resentful subject people, expected to doff their caps to the occupying forces.
I shall not fail in my duty to proclaim to the world that you are like an insignificant and common beer compared to the Galibier: all one can do before this giant is doff one's hat and bow.
We are starting to get M100 sorbent, decon systems and really doff t know much about them.
After each bow, male Lords Commissioners doff their hats to the Members of Parliament while female Lords Commissioners bow their heads in return.
Spray with insecticides based on natural materials such as Doff All In One Bug Spray or a synthetic pesticide such as Bayer Sprayday Greenfly Killer.
Examples from Classical Literature
Seeing no other way of crossing, we were preparing to doff our clothes and ford, when a good soul of a zamindar came up.
And she began at once to talk of the puppies, whom she had named Don and doff.
They expect some of the neighbours to drink tea, and I must doff my fishing-jacket.
She must doff all gloves and give the little Doctor the dressing-down of his life.
A right instinct sent him tiptoe over his lawn, another made him doff his mortarboard.
Doubtfire is a misspelling of Dout-fire, from the dialect dout, to extinguish, formed like don and doff.
In the fields, the corn-gatherers pause to doff their hats and smile their welcome.
I heard him retorting, as he assisted me to doff my doublet.
Presently you may doff it for all time, and resume your true estate.
The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
She taught him to read and to write, to doff his cap without awkwardness and to answer directly and truthfully both lord and peasant.
Without rising, Zuchin asked me to have some vodka and to doff my tunic.
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