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Definition of "walk away" []

  • Used other than as an idiom: see walk,‎ away. (verb)
  • To withdraw from a problematic situation. (verb)
  • To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm. (verb)
  • To defeat someone or achieve something. (verb)

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Use "walk away" in a sentence
  • "This feeling-out process can go on for a long time, and you might easily walk away from the conversation without realizing that you both shared an uncommon interest in progressive jazz."
  • "That Wakefield, with his sparkling 2-0, 2.08 ERA series portfolio built on that slow pitch could possibly walk away with playoff MVP honors if the Red Sox won irked me further."
  • "A short walk away across the hillside we encounter Sabre Growth Larches swirling elaborately upwards like Isadora Duncan, and the striking Celtic Hedge, a deliberately contrary version of a sixty-foot sycamore hedge, planted in 1989."
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