Off Sentence Examples

Thank you for getting me off the hook.

I'll send it off to find out.

I think I scared about ten years off my life too.

She turned off the light and pulled the covers up.

The dark interior set off caution bells again.

The horses moved off the bank.

Where are you off to?

She picked a toy off the floor.

Abruptly, he dropped her hand and turned away, marching off to his car.

Destiny wandered off to her room to play.

When Alex lowered her to the ground, she jerked her hand free and marched off to the house.

He tried to brush it off, but it remained there.

Her head felt like it could float off her body.

Felipa left Carmen at the foot of the stairs, striding off without another word.

Some one balances the toboggan on the very crest of the hill, while we get on, and when we are ready, off we dash down the side of the hill in a headlong rush, and, leaping a projection, plunge into a snow-drift and go swimming far across the pond at a tremendous rate!...

It was almost as if he were shutting Felipa off before she could reveal something.

Where has she run off to?

If anything could take her mind off the worry of surrogacy, he could.

Now a billion or more can achieve that dream, and I foresee a time not far off when everyone on the planet can.

I'm off duty, you know.

I cut him off.

It really ticked Alex off.

Once we get the problem off our "to-do list" and stick it onto the computer's, we largely will be done.

We were busy cutting out paper dolls; but we soon wearied of this amusement, and after cutting up our shoestrings and clipping all the leaves off the honeysuckle that were within reach, I turned my attention to Martha's corkscrews.

He nodded, his gaze drifting off in contemplation.

She was putting plates on the table when the school bus dropped Jonathan off.

Her first thought was that it was a puppy someone had dropped off.

I turned off the light.

The assembled nobles all took off their uniforms and settled down again in their homes and clubs, and not without some groans gave orders to their stewards about the enrollment, feeling amazed themselves at what they had done.

The neighbors couldn't see into any of their windows, and they were far enough off the main road that the only traffic would be people coming to see them.

He stabbed a fork into the roast and cut a small slice off.

I did and I thought he was going to bite my head off.

Her gaze drifted off in contemplation, finally returning to Carmen.

Actually, I just got off my shift and thought I'd check in on her.

It would be dark by the time they got the car off the edge of the cliff.

Children are off limits.

Did you get her car off the cliff, dear?

Then you wouldn't have run off that cliff.

For the most part, though, her conversation was interesting and helped keep Lisa's mind off her own problems.

He got them to back off, at least for now.

I'd probably blow my foot off.

I could drop off the radar for a time.

I glanced out in time to see it moving with its headlights off.

You said they were off before he got here.

The FBI can fill you in better when they get here but this guy's been off the grid since he was released from prison last summer.

Either he got smart fast or someone tipped him off.

Or that taste like meat, taking pastureland off the grid.

The hare arched his back and bounded off yet more swiftly.

Carmen let go of the blanket she had been clutching to her chest and turned to shut her light off.

She'd sworn off men-- especially this one-- a year ago!

Off to one side was an old fire ring but no buildings or people.

Quinn shut his off and no one calls me.

You asked about a con named Willard Humphries a while back and I told you he was out of prison and floated off in the breeze.

I'll take the plunge and go off grid, I can do that stuff.

Behind him, to the far right, I could see the front door was off its hinges, wrested to a strange angle.

I kept after her to tell me and that pissed off Ronnie to all hell and he demanded Julie and me to get out.

I was basically told to keep off your back but no one mentioned I should run errands for you.

Now some really big names tell me to back off but it's my hen house where all you fox are playing.

First off, I don't have the words to tell you how grateful I am for what you and your guys did for us.

For everything... for how I handled the police-guy, for making Julie stay just a little bit longer, for chasing off Martha and Quinn...

Martha and Quinn made their own decision; you didn't chase them off.

You could drop Molly and me off at Logan airport for the ten o'clock flight to California, be in Philadelphia by early evening, and fly out to join us the next morning.

I dropped my women off at the terminal entrance of Logan Airport, amid kisses and a promise to see them in twenty-four hours.

Twelve dollars later I was let off at a shabby red brick building in a section of town where no tour busses stop.

His parents were out of town and instead of looking out for Annie; Howard was off drinking the entire night with some older buddies.

A few of the gents nodded off but the pastor would quickly bring them back we a raised voice and a fist pound, prompting a hearty Amen.

Dropping off this little package was accomplished with no regret as she wouldn't cease screaming her head off keeping my nerves on edge the entire time we were together.

They'd like to search the LeBlanc's place on the off chance our boy broke in there too and maybe got careless.

I gave the fool very clear directions, not to here but a highway pull off fairly close by.

I turned off the recorder and left to drive to police headquarters.

More gunfire and another smaller explosion went off somewhere else in the house.

Dusty strode into the gym and peeled off his shirt.

He peeled off his ruined sweater and tossed it in the trash.

With some regret, he rolled off her and padded to the bathroom, feeling her eyes on him.

We need to dust off a few ops plans for this weekend.

Dusty stalked off and slammed the bedroom door.

Darian, who he'd just pulled off the bottom of the ocean instead of attending his planning session to deal with the Talon issue.

Dusty didn't remember dozing off but snapped awake.

His light was off, a sign he'd been sleeping too hard to notice someone come in.

His skin was colder than snow, the power radiating off him like an arctic breeze.

We can blow half the place up and send in a team to finish off the rest.

He checked his weapons and pulled off his jacket, clipping as many magazines to his belt as he could.

Dusty stripped off the clunky modern weaponry, keeping his sword and knives.

The force of the strike knocked everyone off their feet and deadened the firelight, except for the torches in the corners.

I think the worst is you've been whipped by a woman, Damian ticked off.

Good thing Bianca sent him off this morning with a bag full.

Jule understood the importance of her appearance, just as he knew all bets were off once she was revealed.

Jule was happy to piss off the little green-eyed troll.

She shook off the rain in the doorway and crossed to the small booth near the bar that she and her father usually shared.

She peeled off the thick coat and draped it over one bench before seating herself facing the door, as her father had taught her.

Jule smiled despite his unease, not about to be caught off guard by the creature.

She armed herself, not willing to be caught off guard, then joined her father in the tiny foyer.

I've got someone coming up here to seal the place off.

For in that country, people never wear shoes in the house, but take them off at the door.

Both are better off than they were, even though nothing new has been created.

Cynics view this as the rich paying off the poor to keep them from revolting.

In fact, your children, their children, and their children forever could live off that interest.

Long term, we will be better off manufacturing our food as opposed to growing it.

Inspired, perhaps, by Master Gobbler's success, we carried off to the woodpile a cake which the cook had just frosted, and ate every bit of it.

I felt absolutely alone, cut off from my friends and the firm earth.

Then when Mary arrived, you ran off.

That was how they got off; not with sex.

Dusty rose in response, peeling off his shirt.

Talon's work on her arms pissed him off, but he hadn't considered the wounds were as recent as yesterday.

C'mon. Let's at least get you dried off.

I thought it was strange, since Jimmy's the last person who would veer off course from your orders because you let him blow up whatever he wants and he doesn't wanna lose that.

Thinking that turn and turn about is fair play, she seized the scissors and cut off one of my curls, and would have cut them all off but for my mother's timely interference.

I pulled two beads off and indicated to her that I wanted her to sew them on my doll.

My friends did all they could to excite my curiosity by hints and half-spelled sentences which they pretended to break off in the nick of time.

The other day I broke my doll's head off; but that was not a dreadful accident, because dolls do not live and feel, like people.

I passed off my English and advanced French before I entered college, and I choose the courses I like best.

When a passage interests her, or she needs to remember it for some future use, she flutters it off swiftly on the fingers of her right hand.

Helen began to pull off the jacket, saying, "I must give it to a poor little strange girl."

It was raining very hard and he had a very large umbrella to keep off the rain-drops.

It brings me into closer and tenderer relationship with those I love, and makes it possible for me to enjoy the sweet companionship of a great many persons from whom I should be entirely cut off if I could not talk.

As soon as breakfast was over we hurried off to the shore.

All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.

The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

I could always tell if visitors had called in my absence, either by the bended twigs or grass, or the print of their shoes, and generally of what sex or age or quality they were by some slight trace left, as a flower dropped, or a bunch of grass plucked and thrown away, even as far off as the railroad, half a mile distant, or by the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe.

They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.

The enemy is advancing to destroy Russia, to desecrate the tombs of our fathers, to carry off our wives and children.

I beg you to leave the town and break off all communication with such men as Klyucharev.

It felt good to be off her feet, even if only momentarily and in such a manner.

This is my day off.

He rattled off his number and then gave Connie a stern look.

He started the car and they drove off, leaving Connie standing there on the curb looking after them with a troubled expression.

She stared out the windows at the telephone poles as they approached and sped off in a blur.

He waved a hand as if to brush her inquest off.

You've got the summer off.

She lifted the hair off her neck and sighed as she paused in the shade of a huge oak tree.

Don't be wandering off alone.

Surely you have time off as well, otherwise, how would you have time to come all the way out here.

You're really off on yourself, aren't you?

He gave Allen a last threatening look and stalked off to the house.

Her voice trailed off when he glanced up sharply, obviously stung by her words.

Walking so fast that it created a breeze that caught the loose hair hanging down her back, she turned her ankle slipping off her sandals.

Tammy and Sarah were in the kitchen when she returned, and Tammy was standing in a chair ripping the cover off some chocolate chip cookies.

Who knew what would tick him off?

When Lisa questioned Sarah about the car, she passed it off as a friend of Giddon's, and quickly changed the subject.

She had fallen off a bluff.

I was exploring and I fell off that bluff.

Her directions hadn't been far off.

You fell off a cliff?

I dutifully trekked back through the ranks, lying that I'd been cut off.

Maybe because you dumped her and Darian off on me and disappeared?

The Internet is still able to be "turned off" by despotic rulers.

He took it harder than I thought he would, but being able to keep Tammy took the edge off it.

This time he followed the main road for a while before dipping off onto a well used trail.

He stopped the ATV and shut off the engine.

He stopped the ATV again and they got off, both gazing in rapt silence.

They seem to know man isn't a threat until the engine is shut off.

I saw it in the paper yesterday and thought since I had Saturday off, I'd come out and look at it for you.

He turned into a driveway and shut off the truck.

Mr. Giddon heard him and kicked him off the place.

Her own words bounced off the wall and came back as a flash of memory and imagination.

She finished her breakfast with little conversation and saw Sarah and Tammy off to church.

She sighed and stepped off the porch.

She took off, noting where she entered the woods, and using a tall Sycamore tree as a trail marker.

Probably, but I wouldn't be working off that cake and ice cream, either.

Had he been stalking her the day she fell off the bluff?

He turned and marched off to the house.

Yancey stalked off to his chair, muttering something under his breath.

Oh sure, and if I started taking my clothes off, you'd tell me to stop, right?

The fingers of one hand clutched her throat, while the other warded off her blows.

Allen let go of her and jumped off.

Thanks. Since your radio isn't on, I'm guessing you're off duty.

It was a risk that didn't pay off.

It occurred to her that he might push her off it.

Sure, unless he forces you off the road!

I'm off of here.

We just turned off the highway, so we'll be there pretty soon.

She kicked off her shoes and stretched out on the couch, lacing fingers behind her head.

He wasn't trying to be rude; he was merely fending off an uncomfortable subject.

Of course, a little make-up and the right clothes could do wonders - which was a good way to wind up straying off the path she had mapped before she left home.

You're beginning to hack me off.

If you want to wait until I get off work, I'll try to leave a little early so we won't get back so late.

Oh, come off it, Brandon.

The smile slid off his face.

The doctor said his cholesterol was high and told him to lay off the fats.

Nowadays they cart them off to some baby sitter they hardly know, just to get the kids out of their hair.

I reckon that's something that needs to be done, and them children would be better off with a woman looking after them.

It seemed that she had barely dropped off to sleep, before someone was pounding on her door.

What if I fall off?

In addition, all her planning and tenacity were paying off.

I might meet some tall, dark, handsome man on the way, and you'd chase him off.

He nodded and she waited, but he never took his eyes off the coffee cup, and remained silent.

I know you leave the cap off the toothpaste and I even know when you...

I'm beginning to wonder if you're too polite to tell me to shove off.

Her voice trailed off at his grin.

Would it be such an imposition to take just one day off to go see my parents?

He beat the dirt off his clothes with his hat and then unsaddled the horse.

He stopped and gazed off at the distant hills.

Why did she need to prove to anyone, least of all herself, that she was right in breaking off the relationship?

Turning on one heal, she stalked off to her wagon.

Maybe he wasn't a saddle bum, but only a greenhorn would think he could live off the barren land that surrounded them.

Hopefully he wouldn't wander off and get lost.

It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

Her voice trailed off as realized he was talking to Bordeaux.

I thought you were going to live off the land.

I caught one today, but he got away when his tail broke off.

Apparently scrounging food off the desert wasn't nearly as easy as harnessing a team of mules.

With lightning speed, he caught the end of the whip in his hand and jerked violently, catching her off balance and pulling her off her feet.

Bordeaux picked his hat off the ground and dusted himself off.

I almost have the ranch paid off.

He left us kids to fend for ourselves and now he thinks he can come back and pick up where he left off.

She took careful aim and squeezed off a shot.

Would he ditch her and run off with the other woman?

It would have been easier to run off and leave them.

Each carrying two canteens, a rifle and a lantern, they started off into the long shadows of the sand dunes.

Unsure whether to move away from him or verbally fend him off, she did neither.

Nothing to echo off of, she supposed.

Bordeaux had been leading the horse along the ravine to spare its hooves, but it had been a risk that hadn't paid off.

Bordeaux pulled the saddle off and rubbed him down with the blanket.

On the other side of the rocks, water sprang from the ground and spilled off a ledge into a large blue pool.

But if you'd rather take them off, go ahead.

And yet, now the twins could return to their beloved ranch – the one she had finished paying off.

She stepped out of the tub and dried off.

As she stepped off the walk to cross an alley, a lean figure stepped out of the saloon.

When you ran off like that, I didn't know what to think.

They moved off and their voices faded into the noise of the waking town.

Then he'll be taking off.

He was probably washing some of the dust off his insides last night and overdid it.

The two young women didn't get off at that stop.

She picked up a small valise and lifted her skirt as she stepped off the boardwalk into the dust.

The buggy bounced over a rock and she clutched his arm to keep from falling off.

I never would have believed he would run off and leave us like that.

Bordeaux pulled the team off the road, following a trail off through the pasture.

But I will promise you that I'll never run off and leave you stranded.

Every time the subject of your father came up, you got defensive and I backed off because I was afraid of losing you.

What time do you get off?

The house sits more than a mile off the snow plow route, so sometimes I'm snowed in for a week or so.

Again she wondered if she had bit off more than she could chew.

There was no point in freezing her buns off darting across the cold floor to lock the door.

Three empty bedrooms were closed off to the heat, as well as a full bath that looked as though it hadn't been used in years.

Apparently the water had been shut off up here to keep it from freezing.

That's why the other ranchers want to kill off the wolf?

Eventually her attempts to tame him paid off, and he allowed her to touch him - provided she was careful not to move too quickly.

She snapped the radio off.

She cut her explanation off short as Cade pulled into the drive.

Instantly strong arms scooped her off the ladder and lowered her safely to the floor.

She slid off the counter and straightened too quickly.

Lifting the hair off the back of her neck, he applied the cool towel.

It was in her mind to tell Claudette to take a long walk off a short pier, but a cool voice interrupted them at that moment.

She sighed heavily and slid off the bed.

He gazed off across the hills.

Why did you go running off like that?

When she crawled into bed and turned off the light, the night sky performed a fireworks display in the distance.

He leaned forward as he helped her dismount at the barn, rain rolling off the brim of his hat in a stream.

Why don't you curl up on the couch and get your bare feet off this cold floor?

She stabbed the spade into the flowerbed and gazed off into the distance.

We'll talk when you cool off and get yourself together.

He strode off into the other room.

I thought you might like an evening off.

No, but there's nothing odd about a Tom cat wandering off for a few days.

Her voice trailed off.

You're off the clock now.

You know Cade; you could make a profit off this ranch other ways than running cattle.

Cynthia wiped a tear off her cheek and when she spoke, her voice didn't sound like her own.

All right, I get off at nine.

Do you have some reason you want to put it off for a while?

Zach jerked suddenly, knocking his cap off and exposing a scalp full of red hair.

It pleased me doubly; to show off my fiancée and escape the rush of August in New York.

Betsy nodded, gave me a kiss, and trotted off to follow our hosts.

It pissed him off so much he cut off all tests just when we were making real progress.

That got me pissed off and Quinn accused me of always taking Howie's side.

We decided to take the evening off and have a nice meal in Boston.

She was several miles from where she was supposed to be, off to meet a boy.

I trudged through a boring day, knowing I'd return to an empty apartment as Betsy was off to Los Angeles for the entire week.

First off; we can't have you or anyone near you making any attempt to find out anything about us.

Frankly, if you can convince him, it will take a lot of heat off me.

The director tried to question me but I cut him off, saying we possessed no ambitions beyond what we were doing.

I asked, more to take his mind off mayhem than to elicit information.

Where was platinum, palladium, scandium, coal or peanuts slacking off?

Both felt we should keep our hands off the matter.

Maybe now Youngblood would stay out of the news and Howie would back off insisting we take action to stop him.

Slack off the pressure or have the poor man visit a head-guy.

After the birth we were set to take yet another day off as both Quinn and Martha were unavailable.

Absent Martha's soothing voice, Howie wasn't able to drift off until our third try.

So what if he shaves off the mustache?

Let's hold off deciding until I speak with Brennan and see what he can do.

Fortunately, the boy ran off but the police, who were following Bryce based on our earlier tip, photographed his attempted abduction.

They backed off and waited a day before questioning him.

You brought our man closer to being identified than anyone else so you should kiss off any guilty feelings.

Once in a while, I'm off duty and a call comes to someone else but I think the tipster person maybe knows my hours, 'cause it's rare another girl has to answer.

Can you just drop me off near the mall?

Merrill Cooms new project, After, got off to a start the week we first met Julie.

Then the host caught her off guard when the conversation segued to the Psychic Tipster.

Brenda was given a few days off and the dust settled.

My monolog was blurted out non-stop for fear she'd cut me off before I finished.

Let them all be pissed off at me; perhaps that would bring them closer together against a common enemy.

If you ask me to keep it off the record, I will.

I'll tell you if it's on or off the record.

This will be off the record.

I find it is funded by corporations, do-gooders, trust funds, individuals, and off shore ghost entities... unfortunately, too many names to pursue each and every one.

Even the trash-can liner newspaper that caused us to be hunted down by reward-sniffing hounds has backed off, terminating their contest.

We're off the front page recently and frankly, that pleases me to no end.

Sometimes with an automobile, I can sort-of get inside, if it doesn't move off too fast.

Can't he get these people off your back; and off ours?

This is off the record but someone else thought to be a possible lead to the tipster was threatened recently.

Julie met me at the door before I turned off my car.

I closed my eyes and perhaps nodded off but when I opened them, Martha was standing there, without her robe, in only a sheer nightgown.

She can take Martha's place, trying to calm Howie down enough so he can nod off but keep beating on her the importance of keeping her mouth shut.

He peddled off like Lance Armstrong.

He peeled off a glove to display a hand as scarred as his face.

She roamed the bottom floor until she reached the door off one of the kitchens.

If it goes off for any reason, I'll be at your throat with a knife, truce be damned, Damian said in a low, firm voice.

Drop off Jenn and come back.

The Black God wasn't able to take his eyes off her.

Jule sensed the intruder shortly after dozing off.

He twisted it and unleashed a kick that knocked his opponent off his feet and sent the sword flying.

He couldn't remember ever feeling so … off.

You'll just piss him off.

Jule snapped off the end of the arrow in his shoulder, not about to bleed to death before he'd killed the immortal.

Jule was knocked off his feet by a hard blow but got back up, beckoning to the other creature with a look of confidence out of place for his bloodied face.

The swordsman lifted a sword off the ground and raised it, charging her.

She sped away, and they took off up the driveway with the swordsman trailing.

She used scissors to cut off his shirt.

Too weak to push it off, he let his head drop back onto the cushion behind him.