branch off

phrasal verb

branched off; branching off; branches off

: to separate from something and move in a different direction

The stream branched off to the left.

—often + from

Streets branch off from both sides of the highway.

Examples of branch off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But since leaving the show — Bennett in 2021 and Mooney a year later — both comedians have branched off into different projects. —Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025

Others will branch off into an academic focus, with an eye for playing college soccer. —Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

Since then, Grace Chapel’s satellite campus in Fairview branched off and is now the independent One Church Home, where Berger continues to preach as its pastor emeritus. —Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

Increasingly, small schools are popping up in homes and libraries and strip malls and the rules and regulations that assume a school is a place with 30 classrooms branching off of central corridors with 500 students learning within them are increasingly ill suited to govern what is going on. —Michael McShane, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for branch off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff