How to Use feed off in a Sentence

feed off

phrasal verb

• Kansas seems to find a way to feed off the crowd to win home games.
  — David Smale, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
• The storm will have plenty of warm ocean waters to feed off of.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
• The Knicks are 5-1 at home in these playoffs, feeding off of one of the best home crowds in all of sports.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 May 2024
• Against the rhythmic whoosh of my own breath in the snorkel, the reef crackles with the dawn brigade of fish feeding off the coral.
  — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Cliques are known to be exclusive and feed off the FOMO (fear of missing out) of their peers.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 3 July 2024
• A lot of guys feed off that energy and there are a lot of guys who are similar.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• For starters, bacteria and fungus that feed off the dead cells on a used razor.
  — Abbie Kozolchyk, wsj.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• The working class is living paycheck to paycheck and feeding off the scraps.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The environment should be just as rocking , and the Lions will feed off that.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• The decision to do so was a gamble as the type of cancer Munn was battling fed off of hormones.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• As well, his hope is that with these sorts of groupings, the bands will feed off each other and produce something special.
  — Stuart Munro, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Koh: a dark spirit who feeds off of people paralyzed with fear.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
• For 13 or 17 years the juvenile cicadas, called nymphs, live underground, feeding off the sap of tree roots.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
• The week is all about celebration, and the players feed off the positive energy from the crowds.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Everyone was feeding off the new irritant the team had just acquired at the trade deadline.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Movies that have that certain je ne sais quoi that almost seems to feed off the audience reaction.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• The lake is covered with toxic algae that feeds off oil pollution.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Remove any piles of cardboard or newspapers; insects can feed off of them.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
• The South Team’s offense fed off their defense in the ensuing inning as Brown delivered the go-ahead two-run double in the gap, his second hit of the game.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
• Or not a fan of how your anxiety subconsciously fed off of theirs, turning you into a big ball of stress?
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• Scheffler was grouped with Bhatia on Saturday, and the two fed off one another.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024
• Above all, there’s the sheer pulsing ecstasy of a crowd who feed off their queen’s energy and reflect it back to her a thousandfold.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2023
• There are also still moments of nostalgia, and my music right now feeds off that cocktail.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• Athenian jumped out to a 9-1 lead, feeding off its own crowd’s energy.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Generals fed off each other with the helter-skelter defense.
  — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
• Whitney said her daughter, above all, feeds off her energy.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 27 June 2024
• To get that load off and play with two primary guards in Kihei (Clark) and Reece (Beekman) was big for my development, being able to feed off them.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
• Nationalism is founded on a tightly regimented idea of home, and then feeds off a fear of its loss.
  — Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
• After feeding off jack pine needles for about six weeks, caterpillars pupate and emerge as adult moths six to 10 days later.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2023
• Context: The storm has been feeding off the unusually warm Gulf of Mexico waters, which has the highest level of ocean heat content on record for the region at this time of year.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024