How to Use offshoot in a Sentence

offshoot

noun
  • The business started as an offshoot of an established fashion design company.
  • These are offshoots of the road that go up a steep hill.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • But the city's leaders have launched a new offshoot of the slogan: We ❤️ NYC.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And offshoots of the crime will continue to grow even with Price in prison.
    Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The case is an offshoot of a bigger probe filled with intrigue.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But basically the show is an offshoot of that game set in the same sort of world.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • An offshoot of this is that the pupils will duel in said mobile suits.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • This year, the spot has added a new offshoot under the same roof: 19 Prime Cast Iron Steakhouse.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • But in the 1990s, an offshoot of that kind of play took root in Finland and Scandinavia.
    WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
    Chris Megerian, ajc, 24 July 2022
  • In the past few years, avid skater Ross revived it and has opened offshoots in London and New York.
    Merle Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Leeds hosts an offshoot of the Bank of England, as well as a new state investment bank.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 June 2022
  • The problem here bounces back to an offshoot of the original question.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • The dance music there changed with the era’s tastes — disco in the early days, techno and its offshoots later on.
    Curbed, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The nominees for the award show — which is an offshoot of the People's Choice Awards — were announced in August.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And then there was the worst-case scenario: the dark timeline and its offshoot, the darkest-darkest timeline.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Wadyka explains that the item is an offshoot of the corset, made to constrict, conceal, and whittle.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
  • And that requires you to have some level of consistency, and not just to be a bundle of ad hoc offshoots.
    Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • A few weeks ago, a new offshoot of the Covid-19 Omicron variant made up only a small portion of cases in the United States.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Book a room inside the main hotel or at the ultra-luxe 21-room boutique offshoot called Flagler Club.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike the main series, the offshoot isn't a legal drama — rather, it's set in the world of Chicago politics.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The junction makes for a good turnaround point, but several unsigned offshoots may be used to extend the hike.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • As an offshoot of the Disney-Fox deal, Comcast acquired Sky for $39 billion.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • The newcomer is an offshoot of the popular Tiger Noodle House chain of restaurants based in the Houston area.
    Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • From there, the mine rail developed for hundreds of years as a specialized offshoot of other kinds of trains.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2022
  • People used to have a trade—actors acted, sportsmen sported—and fame was a mere offshoot.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The trend is in some ways an offshoot of the manifestation craze that overtook social media over the last few years.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Privacy—and its pervasive offshoot, the NDA—has also evolved to shield the powerful and rich against the public’s right to know.
    Orly Lobel, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Still, offshoots of the band have given farewell tours before, so perhaps Sunday’s show won’t be a firm goodbye.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • The 2021 proof certainly isn’t the final chapter on problems that are offshoots from the Mordell conjecture.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024

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