How to Use off the air in a Sentence

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  • The One Tree Hill cast have reunited more than a decade off the air!
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • How long late-night talk shows stay off the air is an open question.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • It's been nearly a decade since Parks and Rec went off the air, but the cast has remained close.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Game of Thrones may be off the air, but Christie definitely isn't.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • Of course, in the time since the show went off the air in 2017, Freedia has unequivocally achieved that goal.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2022
  • His contract with Fox would technically keep him off the air through the end of 2024.
    Will Sommer, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The anchors, both married to other people, have since been pulled off the air by ABC.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There was no way Billions was going to go off the air without doing it.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Stars collectively shunned the show, and NBC yanked it off the air for a year, leaving its future in doubt.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Cody Rhodes came to Zayn’s rescue as the show went off the air in an unbelievably heated close to the show.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Michaels, whose show has been off the air since the strike began May 2, is still planning to attend, according to PEN.
    Hillel Italie, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • These words were widely mocked — after all, if people took that advice, his show would’ve gone off the air in a week.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The father switched off the air conditioner and rolled down his window.
    Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Last Man Standing has been off the air for more than a year, but the Baxter family still holds a fond place in viewers' hearts.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Carlson continues to get paid by Fox News, which can keep him off the air through his contract which runs through 2024.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • The Golden Globes are looking to overcome years of controversy that forced the broadcast off the air in 2022.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Evening programming like Tim Allen's Brewers postgame show was also off the air.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The text also helped lead to the Murdochs’ decision a few days later to abruptly pull Mr. Carlson off the air.
    Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • The Walking Dead has only two episodes left before vanishing off the air.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • After 13 years off the air, the comedy is back for a reboot season, and Jennifer Garner joined the cast as a guest star.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
  • This would shut off the air power and drones that have so far—just barely—saved Vladimir Putin’s adventure from collapse.
    WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Carlson was pulled off the air at Fox but is still under contract for at least another year.
    Matt Novak, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Vinyl premiered in 2016, more than ten years after Everybody Loves Raymond went off the air.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 Apr. 2023
  • After almost four months off the air, cult music guide Bandsplain is back with new episodes each Thursday.
    Dora Segall, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • After six years off the air, Schumer’s show, which won this category in 2015, returned with a five-episode fifth season.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • After close to three years since the original CBS drama went off the air, there was room left for growth and change for everyone involved.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Kuiper has been suspended and will be off the air until a review of the incident is completed.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 6 May 2023
  • There's also a Night mode that turns the fan to its lowest setting and shuts off the air quality indicator light.
    Scott Gilbertson gear Team, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Consuelos kept the compliments coming even off the air and shared a sweet tribute to his wife on Instagram.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Party Down has been off the air for nearly 13 years, which means that the hiatus between seasons two and three is old enough to have a bat mitzvah catered by Party Down.
    Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023

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