How to Use branch off in a Sentence

branch off

verb
  • The Spencer Trail branches off; an old pack mule route hacked from the cliffs.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But the case is branching off into some new directions.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • About halfway down the driveway, a dirt road branches off to the west along the lagoon to the ocean.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This line of research, says Yan, is branching off in two directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Pike followed the main line — called the trunk line — which had hoses branching off in other directions.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Snip some small branches off a tree in your yard, or for a longer-lasting look, purchase faux leaves at a local crafts store.
    — Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The appendix is a small pouch branching off the first section of the large intestine.
    — Lilia Goncharova, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • All roads branching off the two Forest Service Roads.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • All roads branching off the two Forest Service Roads.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Snip a few budding branches off a shrub or tree in your yard (or buy artificial ones from the craft store), and place them in a vase.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There are three standalone villas with central living rooms and guest rooms that branch off of different hallways.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Streets will branch off from there, connecting other areas to be absorbed into the new downtown.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • The two treks covered roughly the same ground but branched off to different micro zones within an area of the grove that was more or less burned flat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • As for upcoming projects, Fast hopes to keep things spooky but branch off in different directions.
    — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026
  • Others will branch off into an academic focus, with an eye for playing college soccer.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.
    — ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • In this picture of quantum mechanics, universes branch off with every scenario.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • These word assemblages could then be linked to one another or branch off in entirely new directions—a farsighted idea for the time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
  • As the company works to get its new branches off the ground, Warwick remained bullish on Tennessee growth.
    — Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Dozens of people in the area have volunteered to help clear tree branches off lawns and fix other property damage at the homes of their elderly neighbors.
    — Samuel O’Neal 27, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
  • All afternoon on Strasma North Drive, the constant sounds of chainsaws were heard in a last-ditch effort to get any hanging branches off trees.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Coach Reid Cashman is a branch off Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold’s tree.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Cream marble corridors branch off in either direction, leading to boutiques and guest rooms on one side, the spa and additional amenities on the other.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
  • One branch slopes northeast to feed the Yellowstone caldera, while a second branches off toward the Snake River Plain.
    — ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Even if this were to happen, set theorists who study and use infinity would still be within their rights to continue their work unfazed — to say that perhaps this is where physics and math must branch off from each other.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • One drawing shows Savannah's initials, colored in yellow, and has words branching off that describe her personality.
    — Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The indoor streetscape branches off into rooms designed to look like the Oval Office, a New York bodega, a jail cell and a broadcast news studio.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 6 June 2026
  • Three of them stayed together, but the fourth couldn’t resist Bergeron’s imitation of a hen turkey calling and branched off, coming within 20 yards of the blind.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The Hulu showed branched off from Carola Lovering’s book after season one, and it had been widely assumed that the show would come to a close after its third season.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But since leaving the show — Bennett in 2021 and Mooney a year later — both comedians have branched off into different projects.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025

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