How to Use leave off in a Sentence

leave off

verb

• Meanwhile, rinse the greens and pull the leaves off the stems.
  — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024
• To the dismay of many, the Callery pear tree was left off of this list.
  — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2020
• Dear Heloise: Need to leave off your paint job for a while?
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• Trim the leaves off the top of the fruit, remove the stem, and slice the persimmon in half.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
• Wuest sweeps some leaves off one of the markers, which shows a date of death of 1897.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Though not a film, this work is too essential to leave off the list.
  — Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• This year, the hard part was debating which ones to leave off.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• And the car app will pick up where a listener left off on their phone.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
• Fry’s two-run shot to left off Heasley in the fourth was his fourth home run, giving him 13 RBI.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• The latest series picks up where 2021’s What a Mess doc left off, kind of.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• Here’s a recap of where all of the characters left off....
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• How did My Life with the Walter Boys season 1 leave off?
  — Adam England, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
• The new series launched on Sept. 18 this year and picks up two years after the finale left off.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• Was our pick in first start and cashed nicely; can’t leave off today.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• But since then, many others have picked up where Paul left off, to make sure Jesse didn’t die in vain.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023
• Dune: Part Two, picking up where 2021’s Dune left off, buffs out the white-savior sheen of that telling of the story.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• He got left off some big important Ohio elite team in high school.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• Clears, sheers, and pinks will give you a simple, elegant look that picks up where the glazed donut left off.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024
• To play it safe, ask for your sandwich with no alfalfa sprouts, and for the bean sprouts to be left off your pad Thai.
  — Rachel Meltzer Warren, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Pull the leaves off the greens and coarsely chop them (discard stems or save for another use).
  — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
• As the problems that threatened to derail the band are now in the distant past, the Rose’s 2024 is picking up where this one left off.
  — Tamar Herman, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2023
• Seasons 2 and 3 of the show didn’t appear to make the ultimate cut and were left off of both Hulu and the Fox website.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Players who opt out will be left off the game entirely.
  — Ryan Kryska, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
• The same players that too many Hall of Fame voters are now happy to leave off of their ballots.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The sport was left off that program—flag football, well capitalized by the NFL, was one of the new sports to make it in.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
• Your other co-planner, with an ax to grind, wants to leave off Avery or Brad or both of them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
• The film picks up where John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum left off.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023
• This year’s production continues where the first one left off, with a focus on events from the 1960s to present.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• Presumably, a third film would pick up somewhere after where A New Era left off in the late 1920s.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
• The month has so far picked up where recent ones left off in the D.C. area, with the city about 1 inch below normal for rainfall two weeks in.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024