How to Use live off in a Sentence

live off

verb
  • Massie wears a debt clock lapel pin and lives off the grid.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This program is not to live off of.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
  • His daughter was three years old when her mother left with her to live off the grid.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • We are retired and living off both our savings, but most of it is hers.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • Chicago has lived off of turnovers and late-game heroics, and that could come into play.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Lice are parasites that survive on your body by living off your blood.
    — Wendy Wisner, Health, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Who doesn't dream of living off the land in a bucolic paradise?
    — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
  • Trump has always preferred to live off of someone else’s money.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Many were on the dole, forced to live off the state, while others received no support and couldn’t find work.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The business lives off foot traffic and customers riding the bus.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Legend long had it that Parsons, who lived off a trust fund, paid for the clothing.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • About two-thirds of military families live off-base.
    — Kathy Roth-Douquet, Time, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Selling off any of those investments would leave her with less in monthly returns to live off.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News, 25 July 2024
  • For now, the newborn snakes are living off egg yolk and nutrients from their mother.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • Sharks living off the coast of Brazil just tested positive for which drug?
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 23 July 2024
  • Ten thousand years ago, nomadic tribes gathered here, living off deer and chamois on the land and fish from the rivers.
    — Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Have a light footprint — take a little and leave enough for all the other animals that live off these foods.
    — Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • Some families here still live off the land, selling fish, fruits and vegetables by the road to make ends meet.
    — Tiare Tuuhia, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Everyone at that time lived off the forest and forestry exploitation.
    — Outside Online, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Weevils can also be found in backyards, gardens, and grassy fields, living off plants and fruit trees.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2025
  • Her clients include farmers and ranchers who lived off land that was burned in the fire or that was washed out in the floods that followed.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For future astronauts hoping to settle the moon and live off the land, that matters a lot.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One group drove 20 hours, living off sandwiches to save money.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid.
    — Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude is to invest it and live off the interest.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Those who were living off the grace of others were earning only about $960 a month.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a sense of theater which the public lives off and needs to a certain extent, to have referents.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Local leaders say that will deal a long-term blow to the communities that have lived off the land for centuries.
    — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
  • The family has often lived off the grid, parked on remote federal land.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025

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