"Looks like they're for giving you a send-off," said Dan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

But before he left here there was a spectacular send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2007] Reference

I mean we still have to cover the Rosie O ` Donnell send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2008] Reference

It was a great send-off to the globe-encircling baseball teams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference

Technical College, and had a good send-off by the Directors and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

Carrillo got a hero's send-off in a funeral at the family ranch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liposuctioned To Death] Reference

"You've given us a bully send-off, Mr. President," Bob declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The S. W. F. Club] Reference

The three regiments in garrison sent their bands to help our send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

But it marks the perfect send-off for America's own Professor Harold Hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Long, Music Man] Reference

So, after a rousing send-off from every one on the plantation, I departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

Tradition, heavily promoted by morticians, dictated a lavishly proper send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Many Ways To Say Goodbye] Reference

The crew gave them a cheer for a send-off, and received as loud a salute in return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference

The send-off given us took the form of a little reunion in the parlour of the modest hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

None of us knew them, but they came out here to support them and give them a good send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2009] Reference

Purvis, to whom sleep seemed quite unnecessary, was awake and ready to give them a send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

There were no tears, no wailing, but cheers, earnestness and good will, and a hearty send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

They had given him a daughterly send-off at the station, and then gone to the library for books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

Everything is at once set in motion, and General Cheatham, to give the boys a good send-off, says.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

The entire population turned out to see us off and wish us luck, and gave us a very hearty send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference

Had the Guards been marching away they could not have had a greater and a more enthusiastic send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference

Upon Mr. Lincoln's nomination in 1860, a hatter sent him a silk hat for the advertisement and send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

When it was finally reached, the cow-boys gave them a "send-off" that could have been heard a mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

We take a Serious Sports look back, and give an affectionate send-off to July, the best sports month ever!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hayes Permar: July: The Best Month for Sports] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) GOLDMAN: And maybe thats the most fitting send-off for a guy like George Steinbrenner.    From Wordnik.com.  [National League Wins Baseball's All-Star Game] Reference

Meanwhile the Chicago's cutter had taken. her berth and was ready for the send-off from the committee's launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

Ford funeral (equal) Dignified send-off for a decent guy -- but it seemed to go on for as long as his presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democratic Congress Edition] Reference

And each had a noisy send-off when his backer started to tell what virtues as a coxswain the candidate possessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference

So the stay-at-homes loyally crushed down their feeling of envy and united in a hearty send-off for their fellows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference

The Battalion was given an enthusiastic send-off at Dore and Beauchief Stations on 10th August, when entraining for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

In a final send-off at Andrews Air Force Base, Clinton told the crowd, "I left the White House, but I'm still here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinkin' About Tomorrow] Reference

At Washington University in St. Louis, parents get two and a half days of orientation, ending with a moving send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free At Last!] Reference

The 700 Harvard students in the audience did-and gave a rousing send-off for Cuomo's tentative, noncampaign campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now It's 'Don Quixote' Cuomo] Reference

For the final pregame event, they've invited fans to Redskins Park for a pep rally and send-off party Saturday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pep rally, 10 a.m. Saturday, Redskins Park] Reference

None of the orphan sisters had expected such a glorious send-off -- nor, indeed, had the Parker friends planned it beforehand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

Jimmy, it would give the nursery a dandy send-off, 'cause she was so well known, and Mr. McCarthy was such a prominent citizen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

Four months after the whackus interruptus that concluded "The Sopranos," fans are still dissecting and debating Big Tony's vague send-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Order of Onion Rings] Reference