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
• But in 2016, she was left off the Olympic roster for Rio.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
• 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
• There’s some things—there were four or five big things left off.
  — Alex Leary, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Be a real hero this Fourth of July and leave off the salt.
  — Stacey Leasca, ajc, 4 July 2018
• The origin story picks up where the first movie left off.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
• For one, the season picks up a full year after the last one left off.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019
• Kim said the restaurant will pick up where Café Dear Leon leaves off.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2024
• 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
• More than picking up where Stark left off, Spidey's job now is just to show the Avengers are in good hands.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2019
• 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
• Those would turn out to be the Marlins' only hits all game as the Padres bullpen picked up where Richards left off.
  — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 10 June 2018
• Young-White claimed his name was left off Adeya's birth certificate due to the child's home birth.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Eight years ago, Kohler almost gave up the sport after being left off the 2016 team that went to Brazil.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Netflix Plot Season two left off with the birth of Prince Edward in 1964.
  — Ruby Buddemeyer, Marie Claire, 27 July 2018
• 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
• Before you watch Killing Eve season two, here's a quick recap of where the first run left off.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2019
• Musty was left off last year’s American team, which featured Will Smith, that captured the gold medal in Sweden.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
• These items can safely be left off your to-do list without any risk to performance or outcomes.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024