Off is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like away or dispatch. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Off in a sentence
Related words
Off meaning
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
Synonyms of Off
Using Off
- The main meaning on this page is: In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. | Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. | So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Useful related words include: on, away, bump off, dispatch.
- In the example corpus, off often appears in combinations such as: off the, off in, off to.
Context around Off
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 15 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Off
- In this selection, "off" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, falling, cutting, cut, broadway, falling and target stand out and add context to how "off" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abreu homered off a low, alex thomson off the final, kicked off, took off and off balls. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "off" sits close to words such as because, day and get, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with off
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But cutting off supplies, cutting off heat, cutting off water to civilians. (12 words)
Changes now: Garner off for Gueye, Lindstrom off for Harrison and Coleman off for Young. (15 words)
Accompanying the screenshot, Navarro cleverly wrote, "The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off. (18 words)
The visitors got off to the perfect start when Kenny Mearns dispossessed Grenfell straight from kick-off and laid the ball off to Shaun Rodgers, who set up Jack Purdue for a superb 25-yard shot into the top corner with just 25 seconds on the clock. (47 words)
In the first, Wilyer Abreu homered off a low changeup to put Boston on the board, and Rob Refsnyder doubled off a slider that caught too much plate and scored on star third baseman Rafael Devers’ single off a well-located 97.6 mph fastball. (45 words)
After i personally dropped them off at the office, i spoke to him over the phone informing him that i dropped off the tickets as agreed, He asked for a discount and i yanked off 10% off the original price of 500k. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
Malgin fired an off-target shot that deflected off the end boards, off the top of the net, off Pheonix Copley’s back and into his goal.
After i personally dropped them off at the office, i spoke to him over the phone informing him that i dropped off the tickets as agreed, He asked for a discount and i yanked off 10% off the original price of 500k.
Off-Off-Broadway main The Bronx is home to several Off-Off-Broadway theaters, many staging new works by immigrant playwrights from Latin America and Africa.
Accompanying the screenshot, Navarro cleverly wrote, "The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off.
But cutting off supplies, cutting off heat, cutting off water to civilians.
Cave, claimed off waivers in December, rocked a solo homer off the second-deck facade in right to lead off the fourth for a 1-0 lead.
However, in true Isagi form, he learned how to adapt and move off the ball, throwing Barou off long enough to finish the opponent off with his infamous Direct Shot.
Javin Isidore got the Episkopi team off to a flyer with 54 from 22 balls, and the crucial moment of the match was undoubtedly when he was caught in the deep by Lahiru Udayanga off Nalin’s off-spin.
The company now runs five theaters, all in Midtown Manhattan, including the three Broadway houses, an Off Broadway theater and an Off Off Broadway black-box space that it developed to give a platform to emerging playwrights.
The flight plan includes switching off the rocket's fourth stage twice, allowing it to coast for about 30 minutes - 26 minutes after the first cut off and about 3 minutes after the second cut off.
Then came New Hampshire, off 5.3, New York, off 4.7, then Nevada and Indiana, off 4.3.
The Steelbacks got off to a poor start with Ricardo Vasconcelos pinned leg before by off-spinner Alex Thomson off the final ball of the first over.
When skipper Scott Edwards was bowled off an inside edge by a well-flighted off-break from Maheesh Theekshana that turned a long way from outside the off-stump, Netherlands was 91 for six.
Changes now: Garner off for Gueye, Lindstrom off for Harrison and Coleman off for Young.
Green held his nerve and conceded one off the first, four off the second and one off the third.
He stroked six off-side boundaries off the first 12 balls he faced and raced to 36 off only 22 deliveries before falling to a fine catch by James Aspinall at backward point.
In most cases of new vocalists recruited in the world of popular music—that have garnered attention—we have numerous examples of bands falling off the map, being compared unfavorably to their earlier work or being written off right off the bat.
In the first, Wilyer Abreu homered off a low changeup to put Boston on the board, and Rob Refsnyder doubled off a slider that caught too much plate and scored on star third baseman Rafael Devers’ single off a well-located 97.6 mph fastball.
The bitter stand-off kicked off after Pippa and husband James Matthews 'closed off a lane' by their West Berkshire country home.
The visitors got off to the perfect start when Kenny Mearns dispossessed Grenfell straight from kick-off and laid the ball off to Shaun Rodgers, who set up Jack Purdue for a superb 25-yard shot into the top corner with just 25 seconds on the clock.
Phrases with off
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with off
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- off the 79×
- off in 14×
- off to 13×
- off and 12×
- it off 9×
- kicked off 8×
- off his 8×
- off for 7×
- took off 6×
- off with 5×