How to Use buy off in a Sentence

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• The country’s news outlets have been largely bought off or bullied into silence.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• They can’t be bought off of the shelves from an Hermès boutique.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 24 July 2023
• But justice moved slowly, over four years, and then was bought off.
  — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• The biggest changes are to stock window coverings bought off the shelf, which make up about 80% of the U.S. market.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
• Reading glasses are akin to buying off the rack, with just a few strengths to choose between.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• At the end of the day anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shreds.
  — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2023
• That has raised speculation the gang bosses were bought off.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Below buy off their website — the platforms try to steer the chains' customers away from them and toward their own new offerings.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
• Their work had caught the eye of local government officials, who backed their efforts by giving them funds to buy off-the-shelf cloth masks.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
• That is sometimes added to supplements people buy off the internet.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Zoe Guitar customers can buy off-the-rack handmade guitars for around $1,200, but many Zoe customers relish the idea of having their guitars built to order.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks nationwide.
  — Hannah Norman, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• In an Instagram Story posted over the weekend, Biles revealed that her tiered halter-neck gown, as well as her shoes, bouquet and wedding band, were bought off of Amazon the week of.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
• Why are the Chinese Communists so desperate to buy off American elites?
  — WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• In short, America would rather buy off the current class of homeowners than make any painful economic sacrifices.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• But as detailed in the YouTube video, the one bought off eBay only has two inductors, as well as a large electrolytic capacitor, but a lot less circuitry overall.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
• Soaring oil revenues were used to enrich Chávez loyalists, feed populism and buy off opponents.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• Those who publicly criticized the IT system were threatened with legal action or bought off in nondisclosure agreements.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• But many functions of modern heavy equipment, including vehicles in the U.S. military, are controlled by standard video game controllers anyone can buy off a Best Buy shelf.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• For advanced liberal democracies, buying off others to keep migrants at bay may also come at a high political and moral cost.
  — Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
• Rising prices are prompting more Americans to buy off brand items, and major supermarket chains are encouraging the trend by slashing prices on many private-label products.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 3 June 2022
• But as elections grew more competitive, and with offices across regions up for grabs, gangs started to buy off candidates of various affiliations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Instead, Kretchmer and Lawrence decided to simply buy off-the-shelf robotic arms, strip them of their existing software and install their own proprietary artificial intelligence and vision systems.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• No individual and especially wealthy elites should be given these types of opportunities to buy off social media platforms.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Among other reasons, that will buy off the Australias’ own military industry and the associated Australian ministers and legislators.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Currently, states may obtain waivers enabling recipients to buy off-contract formula, but the process isn’t automatic during emergency periods.
  — Tarini Parti, WSJ, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024