tees off

Definition of tees offnext
present tense third-person singular of tee off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tees off
Verb
  • What angers me is thinking about what could have been.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Conflict rages over resources, but people are, for the most part, decent.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Then, a police-like force rages through their East Village neighborhood, threatening Renata’s friends, lovers, and the memories of those who have died.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That's why, for weeks, Browns fans, analysts, and even local radio hosts have pressed Cleveland to give Sanders more playing time as the offense sputters under Dillon Gabriel.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • And can Justin Herbert rev up an offense that sputters in the red zone while likely missing LT Joe Alt to an ankle injury?
    Greg Cote October 2, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At first, Maia vents her frustrations with her attention-seeking friend.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ndiweni raves about how well prepared Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe and his staff were before the game.
    Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Luckel raves about how thick the pillow is, which plenty of reviewers on Amazon corroborate.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The organ is dropped on the floor and a dog in the waiting room, who'd accidentally consumed marijuana, snaps it up and runs away with it.
    Ana Calderone, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • And if a hundred fish come out of the water, the AI snaps pictures of that hundred fish, identifies those fish, and puts that into the package in a microsecond.
    Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Over the last decade, a slew of studies have found strong evidence that climate change makes stronger, wetter storms more powerful.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Koko storms off and spends the rest of the evening moping about the interaction.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Tees off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tees%20off. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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