How to Use get off on (something) in a Sentence

get off on (something)

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• Yet still, the blue and gold have struggled at times to get off on the right foot.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• One of the reasons behind the drought has been his inability to get off on the right foot.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• Though Buddy and the Big Apple don’t get off on the right foot, his childlike charm eventually gets the best of those around.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
• To ensure things get off on the right paw, try supervised visits, preferably with your dog or cat on a leash, for the first few weeks.
  — Caroline Collins McKenzie, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2020
• Her optimism that the school year would get off on a better footing than the previous one has dimmed.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Who among us doesn’t get off on imagining people just like them getting killed?
  — Bela Shayevich, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The comedian plays a pair of siblings that get off on the wrong foot during Thanksgiving.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• Before the onset of the pandemic, Bourdais was set to play a major role in helping the Foyt team get off on the right foot in a potential turnaround year.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2020
• Boston didn’t get off on the right foot either, getting swept by the same Los Angeles Gladiators team the Fuel dropped in the first weekend of the season.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
• Squid Game has taken the world by storm because people really get off on watching the suffering of others.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The 48-year-old Tinsley, who has worked in the banking industry for 27 years, says Aubrey Lee’s simple advice significantly helped his career get off on the right foot.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• As more and more people become aware of the ability to sell worn clothing to the fetishists who get off on it, the stigma that surrounds both domming and being dommed is slowly diminishing.
  — Gina Tonic, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• The two biggest contenders to make the field — Oregon and Southern California — face divisional rivals at home and have an opportunity to get off on the right foot.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• Someone with a foot fetish is literally turned on by feet—thinking about them, touching them, seeing them—and could potentially get off on everything feet.
  — Angie Jones, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2022
• Now why would Prince Andrew be doing everything possible to get off on a technicality?
  — Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 31 Oct. 2021
• People now get off on seeing mondo mutation, steel meeting tissue, fleshy destruction rebranded as a genetically superior, high-art geek show.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2022
• This particular kink generally refers to receiving pleasure from receiving an enema, although there are those who get off on administering enemas as well.
  — Angie Jones, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024