How to Use off the air in a Sentence
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Trump wants the late night guys off the air, and now two of them are gone.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
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The show returned at the end of July after more than two years off the air.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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There was no way Billions was going to go off the air without doing it.
—Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2023
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Pulling a season that was already filmed off the air is a big decision, after all.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Mar. 2026
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The One Tree Hill cast have reunited more than a decade off the air!
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
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It's been nearly a decade since Parks and Rec went off the air, but the cast has remained close.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
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Game of Thrones may be off the air, but Christie definitely isn't.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
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The father switched off the air conditioner and rolled down his window.
—Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
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These words were widely mocked — after all, if people took that advice, his show would’ve gone off the air in a week.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
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The occasion marked two months to the day since a cancer diagnosis that has kept him off the air.
—Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
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Carlson was pulled off the air at Fox but is still under contract for at least another year.
—Matt Novak, Forbes, 7 May 2023
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King of the Hill is back with a new 10-episode season after 15 years off the air.
—EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Free speech advocates have decried the company’s swift move to take Kimmel off the air.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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The Walking Dead has only two episodes left before vanishing off the air.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2022
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Kuiper has been suspended and will be off the air until a review of the incident is completed.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 6 May 2023
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The anchors, both married to other people, have since been pulled off the air by ABC.
—Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 Dec. 2022
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Evening programming like Tim Allen's Brewers postgame show was also off the air.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
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After almost four months off the air, cult music guide Bandsplain is back with new episodes each Thursday.
—Dora Segall, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
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His contract with Fox would technically keep him off the air through the end of 2024.
—Will Sommer, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
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This would shut off the air power and drones that have so far—just barely—saved Vladimir Putin’s adventure from collapse.
—WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
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However, the company then took the controversial episode off the air.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
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Her initial reason for taking them off the air was that the news surrounding the couple had become a distraction.
—Stephen Battaglio, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
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Cody Rhodes came to Zayn’s rescue as the show went off the air in an unbelievably heated close to the show.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
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After nine years off the air, USA's drama series Graceland is back for more!
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Consuelos kept the compliments coming even off the air and shared a sweet tribute to his wife on Instagram.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
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There's also a Night mode that turns the fan to its lowest setting and shuts off the air quality indicator light.
—Scott Gilbertson gear Team, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
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Stars collectively shunned the show, and NBC yanked it off the air for a year, leaving its future in doubt.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
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Now, Swiss national television has taken his films off the air, some of them the greats of French cinema.
—airmail.news, 6 Jan. 2024
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The broadcast was knocked briefly off the air, but the game continued, meaning, for a time, that only those in attendance knew what was happening.
—Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
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Of course, in the time since the show went off the air in 2017, Freedia has unequivocally achieved that goal.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2022
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