How To Use Off and on In A Sentence

  • Adam Clayman, who caddied off and on at Pebble Beach for three years, said his favorite clients were those who confessed beforehand that they were lousy, four-times-a-year golfers and simply didn't want to embarrass themselves or slow up play. Playing the Big One: A Survival Guide
  • I got to say that I haven't seen that movie and come to think of it where is peacemaker. and the rock (though i'm not sure if general hummel qualifies as a terrorist ...), and face / off and one or two james bond movies and a slew of other titles. Undefined
  • She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on.
  • Even though a qbit is a single 0 or 1 it has the strange ability to be 2 bits at once off and on at the same time, so a qbit-quark could easily convey to Consciousness whether or not it was creating length, or width, or height. Beyond The Bleep
  • For fourteen years, off and on, I have spent the spring on the south coast of Cornwall, in the heliotropic village of St Mawes.
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  • On intercontinental flights that last as long as 20 hours, four pilots rotate with only one takeoff and one landing to hone their flying skills.
  • She heard a plane cross the sky and then the light blinked off and on, the sunlight, the sunray, an event she assembled through closed lids, and she knew the fog had finally lifted. THE BODY ARTIST
  • they phone each other off and on
  • The old saw about the bomb set to go off and only by waterboarding the terrorist can it be found to be disarmed is a specious argument. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
  • Intermingled with the brownish red are such bright and dark colors as orange, black, blue and green; seemingly translucent, they flicker off and on, exhibiting a coloring effect of remarkable appeal.
  • It's been raining off and on all morning, leaving the grass slick, the roads pitted with muddy pools, and the sky churning with sunshine and shadow.
  • Yet even with housing sales and prices cooling off and online competitors nibbling at the situation's vacant revenues, he is looking to acquire more newspapers.
  • The train stayed full with people getting off and on all the way although I didn't see standees.
  • Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkeydom and The Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • The shoes have elasticated gussets, making them easy to slip off and on.
  • My intention was to stand off and on the cape until the head wind changed.
  • Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.
  • I snoozed off and on but Dawn can't sleep in coach.
  • It rained off and on all day, and we were quite content to yarn with Jean Craigie, Ernie Smith, Stan Ombler and the rest of the hut occupants.
  • In the morning we set our foresail, meaning to bear up to the northward, standing off and on to keep away from the current, which otherwise would have set us to the south, away from, all known land. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
  • Hazelwood's software can monitor the processor and detect when subsystems are being turned off and on too often.
  • He was a little piqued when I brought it back with a few bullet holes, the antenna shot off and one rudder cable severed.
  • Off and on through this time, odd figures passed before his bed, and he saw them with the same cloudy uncertainty as before.
  • He railed against being called a racist, a charge leveled at him off and on throughout his career.
  • Throttle control is by mouth throttle for take-off and once in flight, by small levers at the side of the seat.
  • They wore mirrored armor that would deflect a number of shots until the enamel wore off and only plain steel lay beneath.
  • If inspires deeply the suggestion cough, may try off and on to inspire at different times.
  • The nose undercarriage was sheared off and one blade of the propeller was bent back underneath the nose of the aircraft.
  • My cousin battled off and on for 8 years and was in her 40's when she died. Women sharply disagree with mammogram recommendation
  • The group ran off and one of the men chased after them in his car while the other two stayed with the boy.
  • Relieved, I leveled off and once again began dealing with those knotty little details like useless gauges - both my airspeed and my fuel gauge read zero.
  • The train stayed full with people getting off and on all the way although I didn't see standees.
  • PLEASANTON - A tea party protest over health care reform that began near Stoneridge Mall has spilled onto an Interstate 580 overcrossing and has forced the closure of off and onramps onto Foothill Road. AroundTheCapitol.com
  • I've played off and on since my 3 and a half years in Canada, but haven't swung a club for probably 5 years now.
  • Simon picked it up, and with a quick twitch flicked the little drop of sweat off and onto Tebert's itinerary.
  • Of course, any such attempt is constrained by the spectre of a nuclear war, whose bogey is very calculatingly turned off and on by the country's government officials.
  • The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
  • The car's lights went off and only enhanced the feeling of shadow.
  • And, well, we've also been sleeping together off and on, when neither of us are dating anyone else, for the past five years.
  • The shoes have elasticized gussets, making them easy to slip off and on.
  • The lights flash off and on, and the phones are cut as guards try to get people moving out of the room for the next set of visitors.
  • Off and on for several years we employed a wetback, an illegal alien, who worked around the house and yard.
  • I've heard that leaving a light on for a given length of time may use less energy than turning it off and on again.
  • When I switch the engine off and on and activate the wiper lever they restart - although this is of little help on the motorway.
  • The light technician turns the lights off and on to the rhythm of the music.
  • Speakers would cut out at random, and would only come back on when I turned the amp off and on again, or turned it up to full volume.
  • He only accepted the primary education off and on in his childhood.

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