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Recent Examples of give offHoult’s Luthor is a recognizable take on the books’ version of the villain as an evil corporate CEO and string-puller, complete with a gang of lackeys working surveillance systems, data-crunching, and giving off big DOGE energy.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025 That process gives off heat and can warm water below the surface to high temperatures.—Ian Max Stevenson
updated July 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 July 2025 Far more dangerous than U-235 are the elemental products given off when nuclear fuel goes through fission—especially iodine, strontium, and cesium.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 June 2025 But while neither Marchand nor the Bruins closed the door on a return to Boston for No. 63 at the time of the shocking trade to Florida, the tone and the body language of the sides gave off a different vibe – that was time to move on for both sides.—Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for give off
In a recent Reddit post, the woman vented about an awkward hitch in an upcoming international vacation with one of her best friends.
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Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
20 July 2025
Likewise, one of influencer Emily Durham’s humorous TikTok videos, which garnered nearly 500,000 views, discussed booking a meeting room not for work, but to vent about work issues with a colleague.
While unenforceable at this juncture, the ruling provides precedent and legal reasoning that will likely trickle to other jurisdictions in the years to come.
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Justin Worland,
Time,
25 July 2025
More specifically, those who have worked on the ground to enact political promises in the past are questioning how the White House’s proposals will trickle into reality.
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