How to Use buy off in a Sentence

buy off

verb
  • But justice moved slowly, over four years, and then was bought off.
    — Rachel Nolan, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
  • They can’t be bought off of the shelves from an Hermès boutique.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 24 July 2023
  • Guards are presumably being bought off to turn a blind eye.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Bothersome ghosts can be bought off or sent packing.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Reading glasses are akin to buying off the rack, with just a few strengths to choose between.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Fentanyl has made its way into every illicit drug bought off the streets.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Aug. 2024
  • China floods the zone with lots of engineers, almost buying off the votes.
    — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The project was bought off of a pitch Barker made to Universal’s top brass.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • At the end of the day anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shreds.
    — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The country’s news outlets have been largely bought off or bullied into silence.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • That is sometimes added to supplements people buy off the internet.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The Joneses gave him a few thousand dollars to buy off the babysitter’s family.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Below buy off their website — the platforms try to steer the chains' customers away from them and toward their own new offerings.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Their work had caught the eye of local government officials, who backed their efforts by giving them funds to buy off-the-shelf cloth masks.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
  • There’s no way to ensure the safety of products bought off sites such as TikTok, despite what the seller says.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks nationwide.
    — Hannah Norman, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Soaring oil revenues were used to enrich Chávez loyalists, feed populism and buy off opponents.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
  • This is the sharper version of the cynical read, that the companies are buying off the regulators.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • In short, America would rather buy off the current class of homeowners than make any painful economic sacrifices.
    — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For advanced liberal democracies, buying off others to keep migrants at bay may also come at a high political and moral cost.
    — Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Foreign governments must be careful to not be seen as corrupting or buying off Syrian leaders.
    — Nafees Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Why are the Chinese Communists so desperate to buy off American elites?
    — WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This was particularly true among SNA members, who thought some of their leaders had been bought off by Turkey.
    — Nafees Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Those who publicly criticized the IT system were threatened with legal action or bought off in nondisclosure agreements.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But as elections grew more competitive, and with offices across regions up for grabs, gangs started to buy off candidates of various affiliations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • There’s a combination of reproduction, mid-century, and ’70s lights and antique lights bought off the internet.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Feb. 2025
  • No individual and especially wealthy elites should be given these types of opportunities to buy off social media platforms.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Rising prices are prompting more Americans to buy off brand items, and major supermarket chains are encouraging the trend by slashing prices on many private-label products.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 3 June 2022
  • But as detailed in the YouTube video, the one bought off eBay only has two inductors, as well as a large electrolytic capacitor, but a lot less circuitry overall.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The radical Republicans and the conservative Republicans and the Democrats who had been bought off.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026

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