How to Use wave (someone) off in a Sentence

wave (someone) off

phrasal verb

• Henwick’s Liv, the more chillaxed of the pair, tends to wave off the small stuff.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• To say goodbye to this house is, in a sense, to wave off their Latin roots in an attempt to cash in on the American dream.
  — Bo Emerson, ajc, 25 Jan. 2022
• As the footage shows, the pilot did not wave off and continued to attempt a landing.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2022
• The wave off the coast of Vancouver Island was far enough from shore that no damages have been reported.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• Many wave off the drug in the early days of Covid, when symptoms tend to be mildest, bypassing the chance to limit early viral growth.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• With warm, moist ocean air blowing up the mountain, the thermals are to gliders what that big wave off an Hawaiian island is to cult surfers.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 July 2022
• Cole Herrington, 20, was waiting for the next big wave off the coast of Seaside, Oregon, on Sunday when the ocean predator struck.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Meanwhile, a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa is forecast to emerge offshore Sunday.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• At times, Lillard will wave off a screen in hopes of not encouraging a second defender to come his way.
  — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2021
• The school board seemed to wave off those concerns and focus instead on distractions like renaming 44 schools that weren’t open.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021
• Kemp’s decision to wave off that flag had a huge impact on draining enough time to hang on and move an insurmountable two wins ahead of the 0-8 Jets at the bottom of the league standings.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
• Another tropical wave off the African coast has a 40% chance of developing in the next five days, the hurricane center said.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• After weeks of silence in the tropics, the National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave off the coast of Africa.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
• Examples of pareidolia have been making the rounds on the internet for years, but got a bump this summer when a photographer snapped a picture of a wave off the coast of Britain.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2022
• SpaceX will once again try to get a fresh haul of supplies to the International Space Station this weekend after bad weather at the launch site forced the company to wave off its first attempt.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2022
• The second system is a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa that emerged Tuesday morning, which is accompanied by a broad area of low-pressure forecast to move west to west-northwest in the next few days.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
• Its defense, instead, is to wave off any possibility that anyone might think the salads in question are Mexican.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Nesbitt has to remind herself not to raise her flag quickly on offside calls in case the VAR decides there was no violation, but be quick to wave off action when electronics are not involved.
  — Ronald Blum, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Cairenes, as this city’s residents are known, who have contacted government officials to push back against the development say those in charge tend to wave off experts’ advice and dismiss the concerns of local residents.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024