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Off in a sentence

Sentence examples for off. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

Wash it off.

He drank off his glass.

I’ll push the boat off for you.

It slid off, thinning in the water.

The two boats started off in the dark.

“Better take your shoes off,” Bill said.

Clean off the sand on account of the saw.

“Don’t go off at half cock, Doc,” Dick said.

“To bust off that Marge business,” Bill said.

“It’s coming right off the big lake,” Nick said.

“It was probably bad busting it off,” Bill said.

It was dark and he was a long way off from anywhere.

Liz took off her coat and leaned over and covered him with it.

“Take them off and dry them and I’ll get you some,” Bill said.

Jim pulled the burlap sacks off the deer and Liz looked at them.

The young Indian shoved the camp boat off and got in to row Uncle George.

Liz took her coat off the peg on the kitchen wall and they went out the door.

Just like when the three-day blows come now and rip all the leaves off the trees.

They started off and walked up past the cottage and out the back gate into the woods.

After supper they went into the front room again and Liz cleaned off with Mrs. Smith.

“It belongs to White and McNally,” he said, standing up and brushing off his trousers knees.

Nick came in with the log through the kitchen and in passing knocked a pan off the kitchen table.

The men had moved off up the road to sit in the dark and smoke out of range of the noise she made.

He took a plug of tobacco out of his pocket, bit off a chew and spoke in Ojibway to Eddy and Billy Tabeshaw.

Nick and his father got in the stern of the boat and the Indians shoved it off and one of them got in to row.

He carefully picked up all the apricots off the floor, some of them had gone under the stove, and put them back in the pan.

They were trolling along the edge of the channel-bank where the bottom dropped off suddenly from sandy shallows to twelve feet of dark water.

Nick caught three of them with his hands and cut their heads off and skinned them while Marjorie chased with her hands in the bucket, finally caught a perch, cut its head off and skinned it.

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