How to Use off duty in a Sentence

off duty

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• We were told she was hired in 2025, remains employed, but is currently off duty.
  — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 31 July 2026
• When off duty, Jimmy enjoys neighborhood walks and checking in with his neighbors, depuities said.
  — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
• Requiring a flight attendant to be completely off duty during a break could create a safety risk.
  — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
• Rafael Jones has served more than a decade of a life sentence for the death of Moses Walker, who police say was shot and killed while off duty during a botched robbery.
  — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
• Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz took two very different trending shoes off duty in New York on Wednesday.
  — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
• The remains of two Army soldiers who went missing while off duty from military exercises in Morocco were recovered in May, according to the Army.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
• The Upper West Side Claremont’s Pizza is Owen’s place of work and makes several appearances throughout the film, both when Owen is at work and off duty.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2026
• In the days after the robbery, Triunfel looked up the police report on the case multiple times while off duty without authorization — and on Monday searched the NYPD database for his own name, according to the complaint.
  — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
• And in North Carolina, a police officer was charged with unlawfully accessing computers after allegedly using her department’s license plate reader system to look up the vehicle of her boyfriend’s ex-wife 31 times, including twice while off duty.
  — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026