giving off

present participle of give off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for giving off
Verb
  • Critics argue that deploying clean tech to produce fossil fuels prolongs the life of carbon-emitting infrastructure.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Another version alleges planes or devices are being deployed by the federal government, private companies, or researchers to trigger big weather changes, such as hurricanes, or to alter the Earth’s climate, emitting hazardous chemicals in the process.
    Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hadid's looks for the night included a lace lingerie piece dripping in silver fringe and a red hot satin bra with a matching garter and underwear, along with a floor-sweeping robe.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And twenty miles across the fjord’s channel, three sea kayakers camping on high ground woke up to ocean water dripping into their tent, their gear strewn across the shore.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Violence is for getting your way; for asserting your existence as an individual or a group; for venting torrential feeling; for sadistic pleasure.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Following a rough Detroit Lions loss to the Seattle Seahawks in 2022, Aaron — then the defensive coordinator for the Lions — was venting over dinner.
    Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Denver Health has aided these efforts by investing in strategic partnerships that provide alternatives to discharging hospitalized patients back to the streets.
    Sarah Stella, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In 2013, Colonel Margolin, who had been serving as commanding officer of Quantico’s Security Battalion, was removed from command after negligently discharging a personal firearm, according to news reports at the time.
    Chris Cameron, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Just below her hips was a flowing tulle design.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By the next year, hundreds of thousands of dollars from people with links to the developers began flowing into the campaign coffers of state Republican lawmakers, campaign expense reports show.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Shortly after Mills jumped in, news began trickling out from Platner’s past.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, a 2020 study found that meltwater trickling into Antarctica’s ice shelves could infiltrate cracks and force them open, a precursor to marine ice cliff instability that DeConto and colleagues envisioned.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Giving off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giving%20off. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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