How to Use off of in a Sentence

off of

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  • Be sure to scoop the snow from a part of the great outdoors that's clean enough to eat off of, of course.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The following week, the Raiders signed Waller off of the Ravens' practice squad.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The cardboard getting moved off of the cup is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
    USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • And what's better than up to 65 percent off of that state of mind?
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2024
  • How was writing lyrics without a group to bounce ideas off of?
    Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Lift your feet off of the ground so that your hip makes contact with the foam roller at an angle.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Terry scored at 3:05 of the second on a tap-in off of an Adam Henrique feed.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Hang or mount a hook rack on an easy-to-reach wall, the side of a shelving unit, or off of a storage cart.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The home is just off of I-90, about 45 minutes southwest of Chicago.
    The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2024
  • It’s been so cool to have the creator just to be able to bounce ideas off of and ask those harder questions.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2023
  • Even for the biggest stars, the work on the field is often about proving women’s worth off of it.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Anne Hathaway just snagged a piping hot look fresh off of the catwalk.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The dust is normal for this time of year, as African monsoons push dry air off of North Africa and across the Atlantic.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • Some teams could have used Kaep, but a whole lot more can use Jackson, a problem on the field, but not off of it.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • His campaign will likely fundraise off of these charges.
    Averi Harper, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The front has mesh perforations to keep heat out, and the bottom band is nice and thick to keep pressure off of the rib cage.
    Hannah Singleton, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The Marmion graduate used his first spring off of baseball in over a decade to remake his swing.
    Paul Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Below, the Rhône River Valley snaked wide and flat, like a ribbon shaved off of Iowa.
    Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Nothing Nothing today is nothing more than a tiny ghost town off of the U.S. 93, south of Wikieup.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Try the seabass tartare, or the picanha, an item off of the Braai menu that is carefully prepared for over six hours).
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Just a casual 15% off of the entire site, which by the way, already has steep markdowns.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 1 July 2024
  • So he's got to figure out how to bucket Trump, bracket Trump, and pull people off of Trump.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The seats on these garden stools are designed with ergonomic features to take the strain off of your knees or back.
    Deanne Revel, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And then a few months later, to have my son just a few feet away in the same museum being featured off of the work that he’s done. ...
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The clip then cuts to two guests jumping off of a yellow raft and climbing onto a structure in the middle of the water.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • And his face seemed to be glitching, perhaps while hearing the trigger word of what his blueprint is based off of.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Wade La Fontaine boated the 21-pound fish on an offshore trip off of Washington.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 31 Aug. 2023
  • All of that adds up to working parentings taking more time off of work—a lot of it unpaid.
    Bymegan Leonhardt, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The cooler air still in place had previously settled in from the east and northeast, off of the Bay and Atlantic.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Across the course of the episode, Locke endures loss after loss after loss, first losing the Island when turning the wheel boots him off of it, then failing to convince any of the castaways who left the Island to return.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

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