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Example sentences for: off

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After the baron had taken Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with comparative ease, his ships were scattered by storms off Gran Canaria.
The trading day started off down nearly 200 points, but the papers agree on the main reasons for the mid-session turnaround: the chief strategist for Goldman Sachs recommended that investors boost the stock portion of their portfolios, and IBM and several other blue-chippers announced company buy-backs of their stock.
The OFF transient was usually less contaminated by ionic current than the ON transient, and for that reason it provides a better estimate of the total DHPR charge.
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
And during a short career as a Cornhusker football player, he shooed a young Tom Osborne off a practice field.