branching off

Example Sentences

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A spokesperson said: "Because the marathon route cannot be crossed we recommend spectators approach the lanes from roads branching off the A52 and park on these approach roads before they meet the route."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023

The roads have been called “arteries of destruction” and often generate deforestation resembling a fish skeleton, with smaller dirt roads branching off the spine of an official road.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2023

Sultan Tarlaci, a professor of medicine at Üsküdar University in Turkey, takes seriously the many-worlds hypothesis, which holds that all the possibilities described by quantum equations are realized in other universes branching off ours.

From Scientific American • Dec. 24, 2022

I heard his heavy boots pounding behind me as I turned into a second alley branching off from the first.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss