come off

Example Sentences

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As they chatted on Discord, a platform favored by videogamers, Brundage was eager to get more information, but he didn’t want to come off as too serious and shut down the conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Arsenal needed their big guns to come off the bench to secure a win over a battling Mansfield Town side in the FA Cup fifth round, but it was two 16-year-olds who made history.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Platitudes, by their nature, can come off as flippant.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

I had come off of filming “A Complete Unknown” and I was in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

The drench seemed to come off the sea floor itself, where blind white fish ferried themselves by their own light through the great polar cold.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath