buzzed (off)

past tense of buzz (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for buzzed (off)
Verb
  • Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were inactive, while Emeka Egbuka exited with a hamstring injury and did not return.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Mean Girls star exited the series in 2006, leaving Poehler and the Late Night host with two additional years together before Poehler left in 2008.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fort once protected Calliaqua Bay, where ships loaded with sugar departed for England during colonial times.
    Essence, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate departed for the weekend on Thursday following a 10th failed vote on the clean GOP measure, and the House has been on recess for the past four weeks in a bid to pressure Democrats to accept that bill.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With that goal, Messi moved into first place in the Golden Boot race, one goal ahead of Denis Bouanga of Los Angeles FC, who is away on national team duty with Gabon.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • During that time, my mother developed dementia and was moved into a senior-care facility.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Dodgers got past the Phillies without their bats ever really coming to life.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Went through the progression as normal and got two negative plays in a row after the screen.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Smith-Schuster tumbled backward to the ground, jumped up and went after Branch.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Showing confidence the whole night that the outcome wouldn’t really be in doubt, BSU went for it seven times on fourth down, converting six of those.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Still, the district pushed on with assigning Rupert to a different school.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And this ingredient is the secret to the success of many freelancers, start-up founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders who often felt like giving up and were faced with self-doubt on top of the rejections of others, yet still pushed on.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lamarr said Wilks then pulled out a firearm and struck the off-duty officer with it, an act also captured on camera.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In do-or-die Game 5, Milwaukee pulled out the victory at home.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Chinese astronauts dug out tasty treats for the mid-autumn festival, which is a harvest event held every year between mid-September and early October.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Buzzed (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buzzed%20%28off%29. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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