put off

Example Sentences

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Who is going to sell before Dec. 31 when they can wait till Jan. 2 and put off booking a big taxable capital gain by a full year?

From MarketWatch

He also learns a lesson that anyone in the expansive category of middle age would be wise to heed: Don’t put off your doctors’ appointments.

From The Wall Street Journal

Several foreign tourists at Cambodia's most famous temple complex told AFP they had not been put off travelling by the conflict.

From Barron's

Its buyers had far different expectations for what a truck could do and, for example, weren’t put off with having to recharge after towing a boat to the lake.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t think American people are put off by Britishness — I don’t think the music is too crazy for them to get it.

From Los Angeles Times