How to Use come off in a Sentence
come off
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All the while, though, the glow was coming off the atom.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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So, to have that kind of weapon to come off the bench is big.
—Doyle Rader, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
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This was the point where my shoes came off and the snacks came out.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
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For the fourth straight game, Curry will come off the bench.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2022
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Jason Heyward came off the bench to triple in the eighth and homer in the ninth.
—Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 29 May 2024
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Eleven have come off wrist shots and four on snap shots.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
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The Zips drew up a play for Ali Ali to come off a screen for a three-point shot.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
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As the year wore on, though, the bloom started to come off the NFT rose in a big way.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2022
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To come off the bench and hit what proves to be the game-winning blast to help pick up the first win of the year?
—Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2022
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This year’s crop of tight ends could come off the board in a rush in the second and third rounds.
—Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2022
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From there, Hawaii never let their foot come off the gas.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
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Very few needles will come off in your hand if the tree is fresh.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2021
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Of course, the Courage weren’t coming off a midweek match.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
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In total, just six of their 23 points didn’t come off turnovers.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2022
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Montoya started the first game of the season, but has since come off the bench.
—Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2022
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Guard Jacob Gilyard does not come off the court and is a menace on both sides of the floor.
—Xl Media, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
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There was a small spot where the paint had come off entirely.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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Four have come off his bat at 95 mph or harder, each on a line or in the air.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2021
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Some invite you to hitch your star to their wagon, and then the wheels come off.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
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This was just the third time in 113 career playoff games he’s been asked to come off the bench.
—C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2022
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That was until Mark Robins’ Coventry took the first of the four wheels that would come off through the run-in.
—Beren Cross, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
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The 37-year-old Rapinoe had come off the bench, and didn’t play at all Sunday night.
—Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
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Yap came off the bench to lead Fresno State with 17 points.
—Ron Counts, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
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The Tritons are coming off a four-game sweep of Stephen F. Austin.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
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While that platoon has worked in the past, both of them are coming off of down years.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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The Reds are coming off a 7-3 win over the Cubs, handing Chicago its first loss of the spring.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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On-screen, drawn out over the course of nine hour-long episodes, her crimes come off as tiresome.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
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And the Rams are coming off of a win last weekend against the Las Vegas Raiders.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Lochlan and Saxon swapped swim trunks coming off the yacht.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
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Lyles came off the bench to score 12 points in his first four minutes of action, going 4 of 4 from beyond the arc.
—Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 21 Mar. 2025
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