DOFF in a Sentence

Learn DOFF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DOFF, such as:

1. A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.
2. The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
3. I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOFF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
doff
 v.  take off; remove; tip or remove one's hat in salutation; put aside; discard
Classic Sentence:
1  I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2  The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.