Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

More than half of them sold their work or gave it away to family and friends.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The spacecraft was too far away to be seen.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

"My friends and I have made a list of things we want to do over the summer. Different places to travel, to get away to, maybe a beach a few hours away.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The garden produces vegetables, fruits and herbs to sell or give away to the community.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

"She's expected to stay home, not to go away to college or do anything that would betray the family's idea of what it is to be a good daughter."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Athnaise went away one morning to visit her parents, ten miles back on the Bon Dieu River in Louisiana.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Before Marian could enter, however, a young white woman who worked in the school told her to go away.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Susan Larson reads a scene from Nancy Drew's first adventure, "The Secret of the Old Clock": "Nancy struggled to get away.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Is it to be melted away by secession, as the snows of a mountain are melted away under the sun?

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The movement of businesses and people away from city centers led to the economic weakening of many downtown areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.11