branch off

phrasal verb

branched off; branching off; branches off

: to separate from something and move in a different direction

The stream branched off to the left.

—often + from

Streets branch off from both sides of the highway.

Examples of branch off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Liv Morgan, one-half of the reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, is set to step away from the squared circle for a while period to branch off into a new venture. —Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

In the upper part of the house is the long hall, like the stem of a weed whose little fruits are the several nice rooms that branch off from it. —Diane Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024

Charlie’s roiling interiority is a more engaging long-term through-line for Poker Face than her repetitive fleeing from either the police or the Five Families, and that emotional angle bestows a strong core the series’ goofy stuff can branch off of. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2025

Lovato appeared in a number of Disney Channel projects before branching off on their own as a pop singer. —Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for branch off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff