How to Use behind/off schedule in a Sentence

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  • To Harris Reed who showed demi Couture off schedule on the eve of the week.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • On back-to-back fourth-quarter plays, his pass rush kept Newton off schedule.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Is falling off schedule the result of falling behind or the three and outs or a combo?
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Whether that's with the read-option game, whether that's making a play off schedule, whether that's buying time and throwing down the field, that's pretty unique and that's pretty hard to find.
    Nate Ulrich, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Timeliness is important to Woods — being late throws him off schedule and off balance.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Coaches like consistency so the players are in sync with one another, but Virginia has been thrown off schedule.
    David Dorman Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Knocking this offense off schedule and putting it behind the sticks will be crucial in avoiding those long, demoralizing drives.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Hopefully, the current energy crisis won’t throw the country off schedule.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Those struggles kept not only the Ravens off schedule but also Buffalo in its preferred defensive structure.
    Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Bulldogs remain so maddeningly efficient in part because they so seldom are knocked off schedule.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The offense was ineffective and off schedule; Milton looked uncomfortable and played his worst game of the season; and the run game remained non-existent one week after compiling 13 yards at Indiana.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2020
  • An initiative in Los Angeles to hire tutoring contractors illustrates how deploying the money can get off schedule.
    Ben Chapman, WSJ, 18 May 2022

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