How to Use off year in a Sentence

off year

noun

• It has been an off year for auto sales.
• So was last year the start of the decline or just an off year for the starting running back?
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
• Perhaps the film's modesty has kept it off year-end lists.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 15 Dec. 2017
• San Antonio played a role in Kimzey’s lone off year, too.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2022
• According to the campaign, Frisch's fundraising broke the record for the highest amount raised from donors by a challenger in a House race in an off year.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 17 July 2023
• The denial caucus will tell us to pay no attention to an off-off year election.
  — Paul Begala, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
• Cyrus is a 20-something man shaking off years of drinking and drugging by spouting words.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• At Cider Corps and Myke’s Pizza, veterans and and active duty get 10% off year-round.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2021
• The Pulitzer Prize board, which will announce the 2020 winners on Monday, has had some arguably off years in the drama category.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• And research released earlier this year claims that a neutral expression is the key to shaving off years.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 10 Oct. 2018
• So, in off year elections, midyear elections, the power -- the party in power of the White House usually loses on average 15 seats.
  — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• But if social distance is the antithesis of the football experience, maybe the team’s off year is an acceptable time for it.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2020
• When companies used raises as rewards, employees could count on their salaries staying with them, even in off years.
  — John Simons, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• Metro Diner: 50% off for active and retired military with valid military ID and 10% off year-round.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
• Despite the increase in air travel, passenger counts remain well off year-ago levels.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2020
• This is similar to the problem Obama had: His base of young and non-white voters also had a terrible history of showing up in off years.
  — David Wasserman, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2017
• The restaurant is giving 50% off to retired and active-duty and retired military on Veterans Day and 10% off year round.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2021
• There are no ‘off years’ for voting or deepening a commitment to democracy.
  — Jessica Pliska, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Also, old computers, monitors, keyboards, software, mice, printers, modems, ink jet cartridges and cell phones can be dropped off year round at the fleet garage.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 July 2020
• When the home was auctioned off years later, federal agencies couldn’t ensure the entire property was free of booby traps.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• Since the 1970s, the winner of Virginia's off year gubernatorial election always came from the party in opposition to the White House.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 23 July 2021
• Offering 50% off to active and retired military with valid military ID on Veterans Day, and 10% off year-round.
  — The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2022
• Virginia’s off-off year elections also tend to favor whichever party isn’t occupying the White House, moreover.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
• This will mark the first time San Francisco has held a mayoral contest during a presidential year, after residents voted to move city elections away from lower-turnout off years.
  — Cooper Burton, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
• Pelaez argued that increasing the limit would allow council members to focus more on constituent work than fundraising, especially in off years.
  — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2018
• In Colorado, conservatives started making gains earlier because school board elections are held in off years.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 9 May 2023
• Ireland, who's able to slough off years from her character's age by simply turning her head, reveals all that has been lost over time in a portrait that connects history with psychology and fate with brute economic facts.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The city's de facto one-party monopoly, combined with one off-off year election every four years constitutes an across-the-board voter suppression system that really works.
  — Bob “again” Carney Jr., Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• This year in Pennsylvania, where off years are generally headlined by statewide judicial races, turnout trended up for a fifth consecutive cycle.
  — Tia Yang, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• In the past, some areas occasionally experienced off years because of a bad storm or a temperature fluctuation.
  — Justin Worland/alajuela, Time, 21 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024