How to Use live off in a Sentence

live off

verb
  • Selling off any of those investments would leave her with less in monthly returns to live off.
    Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News, 25 July 2024
  • After all, these people took care and lived off the land for centuries before heavy development.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The Whites can’t work and live off a disability check of less than $1,000 a month.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • His daughter was three years old when her mother left with her to live off the grid.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Legend long had it that Parsons, who lived off a trust fund, paid for the clothing.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • The sisters from Colorado Springs, about an hour south of Denver, had been planning to live off the grid since the fall of 2021, Jara said.
    CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • People who have a partner that lives off of their income.
    Becca Stanek, theweek, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Who doesn't dream of living off the land in a bucolic paradise?
    Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
  • Ten thousand years ago, nomadic tribes gathered here, living off deer and chamois on the land and fish from the rivers.
    Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Those who were living off the grace of others were earning only about $960 a month.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude is to invest it and live off the interest.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The orcas that live off the western coast of North America are in trouble.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • Her clients include farmers and ranchers who lived off land that was burned in the fire or that was washed out in the floods that followed.
    Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Police heard the pair may have traveled to the Athens area in Georgia as Heather had expressed a desire to live off the grid and sold her car.
    Chris Sims, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • But no one in her family has enough to eat or even space to cook, living off a shared bite or piece of street food each day.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Some families here still live off the land, selling fish, fruits and vegetables by the road to make ends meet.
    Tiare Tuuhia, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For future astronauts hoping to settle the moon and live off the land, that matters a lot.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a sense of theater which the public lives off and needs to a certain extent, to have referents.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Have a light footprint — take a little and leave enough for all the other animals that live off these foods.
    Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • Junior is today an older gay man in New York City, still living off of what the city is willing to give him.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • For now, the newborn snakes are living off egg yolk and nutrients from their mother.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • The Mother has been living off the grid, in an isolated cabin in Alaska.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
  • Trump has always preferred to live off of someone else’s money.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Like many in Molise, the people of the towns coexist with the wild landscape, often making their living off the land as farmers.
    Asia London Palomba, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2023
  • My family has been fishing in this river for thousands of years, living off of the salmon that return each year.
    Quannah Chasinghorse, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude, experts recommend, is to invest it and live off the interest.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This renovation series for them folks what live off the grid returns for a 10th season.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The canine was living off the generosity of neighbors and scrounging for scraps.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Money and commerce are not as old as humanity since Adam and Eve lived off the land, but both go way back together.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into the bones to find nutrients.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023

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