off

How to use off in a sentence

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.

Consequently Tchaikovsky delighted in hearing her recall the joys and sorrows of those far-off days.

That little chapel, he continues, which contains the cast-off garments of his soul, is bright with solid silver.

The people who lived in those far-off days had no special occasion to know or to care what time it was.

These finishing-off rows look pretty done in pale pink or blue wool.

The houses of the well-off were unpretentious outside, but were fitted inside with comfort and even elegance.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985