Example sentences for: off-duty

How can you use “off-duty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If the speed limit is 55 mph, off-duty highway cops should drive at 55, even if 62 or 63 is close enough for the rest of us.

  • So an off-duty officer stopped in a speed trap will try to escape by murmuring to the traffic officer, I'm in the job, mate, or perhaps just I'm job.

  • Fourth, many off-duty firefighters responded from firehouses separately from the on-duty unit (in some cases when expressly told not to) or from home.

  • Had any such attacks occurred, the FDNY's response would have been severely compromised by the concentration of so many of its off-duty personnel, particularly its elite personnel, at the WTC.

  • On September 13, Tampa police brought three young Saudis they were protecting on an off-duty security detail to the airport so they could get on a plane to Lexington.


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