leaves off

present tense third-person singular of leave off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of leaves off An easy way to keep the lawn healthy and leaves off the lawn is to rake often. Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025 Rain is coming, penciled in for an hour or two from now, and a harsh British wind is flinging leaves off branches and cloaking the countryside with something that smells dungy and damp. Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025 Defenders fall to the ground like leaves off a tree when Lemon sprints to open spaces. Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025 Any list of top-5 Nuggets that leaves off Melo is suspect. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025 The book leaves off on a more ambiguous note, as Eleanor explains that she and Jamie weren't meant to be together. Caroline Blair, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaves off
Verb
  • The book’s journey through the brain ends at the frontal pole, a region involved in self-reflection — thinking about thinking.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The upheaval comes as brands battle to reverse a slowdown in luxury consumption worldwide, with aspirational consumers turning their backs on high-ends goods after several years of steep price increases in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So grab a plate, settle in, and let these films take you back to the yard—where the music never stops, the bonds run deep, and every Homecoming feels like family coming home again.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • More than 750,000 federal workers have been furloughed, which stops them from reporting to work.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to Havel, this usefulness is so successful, so total, that the story, the history, ceases to exist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • If an airport ceases service for more than six hours, you may be reimbursed for non-refundable expenses like flights, hotels, prepaid tours, and change fees.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Holiday Bowl’s six-year deal with the ACC and Pac-12 expires after the January game.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • No deal has been announced to continue the game after the contract expires at the end of this season.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tonight’s loss for OD Wyatt halts its five-game win streak, which only adds to the competitiveness in the division.
    Chris Winters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
  • For one day only, vehicle traffic halts on the 3,031-foot-long bridge and pedestrians stream across.
    Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Once that process concludes and a final report is issued, the unions can officially legally strike.
    Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For the most part, the players that teams will covet this winter are not eligible to sign new deals until five days after the World Series concludes.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Among those that have called it quits in recent months are Los Angeles’s Blum and LA Louver; New York’s Kasmin, Tilton Gallery, and Venus Over Manhattan; and the bicoastal Clearing, which had operated outposts in New York and Los Angeles.
    News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After calling it quits with Reggie Bush — the pair first broke up in 2009 due to busy schedules, then got back together briefly before splitting for good in 2010 — Kim was very single.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The scene where ‘80s teen Marty McFly borrows a scooter from a bewildered ‘50s kid and breaks off the handles to make a skateboard is one of the film’s most iconic moments.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Second, the flowing glacier brings more ice forward to replace what breaks off, slowing the cliff’s inland retreat and making a chain reaction of cliff toppling less likely.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Leaves off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaves%20off. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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