How to Use live off in a Sentence

live off

verb

• People who live off the water grid—such as those with their own wells—do not have the benefit of an annual report and must test their water on their own.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• Therefore, people living off their family assets will often want to waive alimony.
  — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• The goal is for residents to be able to live off the land and grow their own organic food—kind of like the ultimate farm-to-table experience, but in your backyard.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2024
• After living off grid in a trailer, Laura La Rue, a tie-dye artist and former model, created a live-work compound centered around an Ojai school bus.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• The Whites can’t work and live off a disability check of less than $1,000 a month.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
• His daughter was three years old when her mother left with her to live off the grid.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• Legend long had it that Parsons, who lived off a trust fund, paid for the clothing.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
• The sisters from Colorado Springs, about an hour south of Denver, had been planning to live off the grid since the fall of 2021, Jara said.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
• People who have a partner that lives off of their income.
  — Becca Stanek, theweek, 26 Apr. 2024
• Who doesn't dream of living off the land in a bucolic paradise?
  — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• Ten thousand years ago, nomadic tribes gathered here, living off deer and chamois on the land and fish from the rivers.
  — Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
• Those who were living off the grace of others were earning only about $960 a month.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude is to invest it and live off the interest.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• The orcas that live off the western coast of North America are in trouble.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
• Her clients include farmers and ranchers who lived off land that was burned in the fire or that was washed out in the floods that followed.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Police heard the pair may have traveled to the Athens area in Georgia as Heather had expressed a desire to live off the grid and sold her car.
  — Chris Sims, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• Sharks living off the coast of Brazil just tested positive for which drug?
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 23 July 2024
• But no one in her family has enough to eat or even space to cook, living off a shared bite or piece of street food each day.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Some families here still live off the land, selling fish, fruits and vegetables by the road to make ends meet.
  — Tiare Tuuhia, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• For future astronauts hoping to settle the moon and live off the land, that matters a lot.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• There’s a sense of theater which the public lives off and needs to a certain extent, to have referents.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• Have a light footprint — take a little and leave enough for all the other animals that live off these foods.
  — Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• Junior is today an older gay man in New York City, still living off of what the city is willing to give him.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• For now, the newborn snakes are living off egg yolk and nutrients from their mother.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
• The Mother has been living off the grid, in an isolated cabin in Alaska.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
• Trump has always preferred to live off of someone else’s money.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Selling off any of those investments would leave her with less in monthly returns to live off.
  — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News, 25 July 2024
• Like many in Molise, the people of the towns coexist with the wild landscape, often making their living off the land as farmers.
  — Asia London Palomba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
• Everyone at that time lived off the forest and forestry exploitation.
  — Outside Online, 25 Sep. 2024
• My abuelo grew up in a rancho in Río Grande, in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, where his family lived off the land, eating corn, squash, beans, chiles and nopales.
  — Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024