English example sentences with "leave off"

The doctor advised me to leave off jogging because it was excessive exercise.

You'd better leave off such a radical idea.

Where did we leave off last time?

It's time to leave off work.

I can't leave off smoking.

Where did we leave off?

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs till they accomplish them in deed.

Music begins where words leave off.

Although Mr. Koizumi's musings about retirement are receiving attention from the international news media, there has been little mention of them domestically. Political analysts say the public and most Japanese reporters already expect the prime minister to leave office when his current term ends in September 2006.

Leave off hitting him!