rail something off

Examples of railed

railed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

English teachers have railed about such bad writing for decades, and rightly so, but little progress seems to have been made by bureaucratic communications.
The contemporary discourse within the media elites shows that most 45er editors explicitly railed against any formation of consensus.
Nothing is stated about the communion table, in a church which was most unlikely to have contained a railed altar.
Its techniques may also be on their way to becoming as formulaic as those of the techno against which it originally railed.
Aged inmates railed against petty-fogging bureaucracy and regulation for the sake of regulation.
During this same period, 1,243 tons of palm oil were railed from the western to the northern provinces.
Davies has identified an undated document in state papers, entitled the ' king's injunctions on divine service ', which urges that parish churches establish a railed altar, at which communicants receive.
What it railed against is no more.
They also railed provocatively against state brutality.
Dee is the first bishop known to have asked in his visitation articles if communion tables were railed in at the east end of chancels.
To-day the slates have to be delivered in a hurry, for the purpose of some local authority's housing scheme, and they are railed forthwith.
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