What is "jumped off"

Usage examples of "jumped off".

Just at that moment Ermengarde almost jumped off the bed, she was so startled by a sound she heard.

In utter disbelief he turned around, jumped off the belt onto the ground.

He jumped off the counter with a squeal of glee, landed lightly on the floor, and all three of them went pelting back out onto the south lawn, where they would fill the water cups at the fountain and make Fuzzy-talk while Ben and Vic made Big-One talk.

He had tied his cord to the hook on which the heavy lamp used to hang, and he had jumped off from the top of the very box that he showed us yesterday.

As soon as he put the floor boards back in place the dish jumped off the shelf and fell to the floor.

If Richard had jumped off a cliff, I'd have followed, because I was just moving.

A refractory little thief named Peter Brown, aged twelve years, had jumped off the high rock and drowned himself in full view of the constables.

She ran upstairs for twenty minutes, as fast as she could push the machine, then jumped off, sweating and breathing hard, and dropped to the floor.

Sancho, who thought his master was in danger of being thrown, jumped off Dapple, and ran in all haste to help him.