How to Use off in a Sentence

off

1 of 4 adverb

• The car turned off onto a side street.
• She put on her jacket and off she went.
• For food, starters are half off.
  — Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
• Shares are just off last week’s high.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
• Three or four games off, one game on.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
• That's one way to spend a day off.
  — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
• That kind of grief doesn’t take a day off.
  — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 4 June 2026
• Found a coupon code to get $3 off.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Sep. 2025
• Once in a while, give the lawyers a day off.
  — Don McKellar, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• It's been kind of an on-again and off-again project.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
• Well, our picks are up to 80% off.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2025
• Get these pumps for 46% off right now.
  — Tim Chan, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
• Smith found that scene off-putting, but the two stayed friends.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• Both items are marked 30% off right now.
  — Hildara Araya, Parents, 16 Mar. 2026
• What does that $400 off get you?
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
• But the answer may not be far off.
  — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
• Sadly, such a deal seems some way off.
  — Comfort Ero, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
• My hat’s off to them for getting us here.
  — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
• The angle was off and just missed the net.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2026
• Gwen chopped all her hair off in between movies.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
• But those refunds could be a long way off still.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
• If that state is off, doing less won’t fix it.
  — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
• What does your perfect day off from work look like?
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
• What does your perfect day off from work look like?
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
• It’s been a long time coming as far as the day off.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
• Shares are off 30% from the March high.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 25 June 2026
• Like so many jumpers in this series, his aim was off.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
• Most items are now marked 50-60% off.
  — Angela Palermo january 7, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
• Whether off or on screen, like the new moon, she could be felt if not seen.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Jan. 2024
• Shares are now off 30% from the April high.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026

off

2 of 4 preposition

• They live off the land.
• They make their living off tourism.
• She is still living off her parents.
• The family lives off welfare.
• There are no days off for that.
  — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
• Don’t hide your curves — show them off.
  — David Moin, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
• Then a shape soared off the edge of the roof.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• Top it off with a glint of silver.
  — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
• All was capped off by a dance party.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
• Tear off the stub at the top of the ballot.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
• The shapes have also moved off the front row.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
• There’s something a bit off about her.
  — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
• Wipe the human race off the face of the earth.
  — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
• Posey seems to want to pass this off as prudence.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
• He's seen countless fly balls hit off the bat.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
• If something feels off, don’t push through it.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
• Ana rinsed off the sponge, her shoulders rigid.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• Divers who try to brush them off inevitably peel away some wood.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Turn the lights all the way off and keep foot off the brake pedal.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• Mitchell Robinson changed the game off the bench.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
• If the crease is what's put you off foldables, this is the phone for you.
  — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
• The comic-strip world is better off for it.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
• If caught in one, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep your foot off the brake.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• Missouri scored just 13 points off turnovers.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
• Getting those days off was very much needed.
  — Broderick Turner follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
• What was the frustration that set it off?
  — Ashoka, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Give them the advantage in this source off.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• That would let everyone off the hook, right?
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
• Then fill it with clean water and mop the floor again to rinse off any bleach residue.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025

off

3 of 4 adjective

• The lever is in the off position.
• She is off on a trip.
• He is off playing golf.
• To the quick trips to card shops on off days.
  — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• On my off days, my dog is my alarm clock.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 29 Sep. 2025
• But even the best guessers have their off days.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• He’s allowed to have an off night.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• An off smell or sour odor signals spoilage.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
• There is no off switch when the crisis is your child.
  — Liz Koch, STAT, 6 Apr. 2026
• Phills’ one off-court weakness, though, was fast cars.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
• And then the third Wednesday is an off week.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
• But even in his off hours, Boose is still working.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
• After five weeks of fighting, is there any off ramp in sight?
  — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Few actors want to show up to an night shoot during their off hours.
  — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
• The statistic is well-worn, even after an off week.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• But, hey, everyone has an off night.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
• But even if his off-court record were pristine, this is brutal work.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Wright excels from an off alignment.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Signs of spoilage look like mold, and an off smell, taste, and appearance.
  — Rishon Hanners, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
• New York won his off-court minutes by 25.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• Make a fist with your off hand and extend your non-working arm out to the side.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• So, keep that in mind the next time a player has an off day or boots a couple of balls.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• A lot of theaters take that as being more of their off-season.
  — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
• And then off-season comes around, and usually a lot of guys dip.
  — Tabitha Parent, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• There’s also a 12-game stretch without an off day.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
• But sometimes, even the greats are entitled to an off night.
  — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• Baggy jeans to keep your off-duty outfits cool?
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 22 May 2026
• Every restaurant has had an off night, short staff or new cook joining the line.
  — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• Think warm neutrals like off-white, beige, and brown paired with shades of green, sepia, and amber.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
• Some players went bowling during their off day.
  — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025

off

4 of 4 verb

• The movie is about a gangster who gets power by offing his rivals.
• Can someone go from on the team to off the team in five practices and two games?
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Off by itself on the right side of the stick’s top is a two-position switch.
  — Matthew Hirsch, Ars Technica, 4 June 2017
• One member is a killer and attempts to off the other crewmates.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
• These are messages society subscribes to off the big screen and in real life.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
• As a protector, Harrison had a good case to off him, but chose not to.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
• Now, this isn’t the first time that a series has offed its primary protagonist.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2019
• Anton offs his parents and his besties before figuring out what’s going on.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
• Even after people start getting offed, the film’s sense of urgency remains mild.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2025
• Powell stars as a man who is tasked with offing his family in order to secure his inheritance.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
• Brabham is a gentle man who hardly seems capable of splatting a spider, much less offing a rodent.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Of course, there’s a big difference between offing a child standing next to you and saying that people ought to choose not to have that child in the first place.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 13 July 2017
• Although Prater has a rule against his guests offing one another, Dexter can’t help himself.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
• The current Disney+ version even shows Greedo getting in the last word before Han offs him.
  — Rance Collins, IndieWire, 14 June 2025
• Too bad then that the man holding a debt over his head (Jonathan Coyne) is actually planning on offing him in his last match.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
• And apparently pangolins and porcupines get along fine without offing members of their own species.
  — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
• Here, six writers remind us of the ephemera many of us will miss when smartphones inevitably make wallets obsolete—and a few of the worthy trade-offs our devices bring.
  — Matthew Kitchen, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• Off a turnover, Real Madrid proved lethal, with Isco feeding a streaking Ronaldo with a through ball.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 21 May 2017
• By offing him in this manner, the movie can continue, without worrying about adding to its already lengthy ~150-minute run time.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2017
• After the phone call ended, Hoft and Wintrich took an elevator down to Off the Record.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Powell stars as a man offing his obscenely wealthy family to resecure an inheritance.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2025
• However, what's even more ingenious in setting them apart from other horror villains is how the killer offs their victims by using the rules of horror films against them.
  — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
• And Bron's been in this league for a while now, and he's seen every which way from on the court, to off the court, to dealing with some of you guys, to dealing with the whole world of just choosing a side.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• June got the party going by offing Commander Bell, who’d been abusing Janine, his new handmaid.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 16 May 2025
• Gianarikas said that potential has led for the stock to be volatile, going from tripling in 2026 by early May to now off more than 40% from its highs for the year.
  — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 9 June 2026
• Honorable Mentions Sandra Bullock was also acknowledged as someone who could can off the accent.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2025
• Her red oak is old, wise and optimistic; home to many; observer and occasional agent; historian and storyteller with humans usually off limits.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Unfortunately, what most people didn't expect was for sweet, Halloween-loving Bob to be offed by the Demogorgon before the season was out.
  — refinery29.com, 25 May 2018
• One of them, Elle (Sophie Thatche), is haunted by a nefarious murderer, the Leather Man, who is offing women around the city.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 May 2026
• Carolyn did not want to off her fellow Survivor player, and the fact that none of the other Traitors are listening to her or valuing her opinion is absolutely going to come into play later this season.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Jan. 2025