How to Use off year in a Sentence

off year

noun
  • It has been an off year for auto sales.
  • This has been an off year for walleye, Jones said.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Lake Powell can’t afford an off year.
    — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • And production of nearly a point a game is pretty good for an off year.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Players can have an off year for a variety of reasons.
    — Al Melchior, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The denial caucus will tell us to pay no attention to an off-off year election.
    — Paul Begala, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Devin Booker and Trae Young had off years by their standards.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The hope is that rising wages and prices can help the country shake off years of economic weakness.
    — Laura He, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • So enjoy these exceptions and hope 2026 is an off year.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • State lawmakers file just one report covering that off year, but file at least four times a year in an election year.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Cyrus is a 20-something man shaking off years of drinking and drugging by spouting words.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Despite the increase in air travel, passenger counts remain well off year-ago levels.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2020
  • There are no ‘off years’ for voting or deepening a commitment to democracy.
    — Jessica Pliska, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And research released earlier this year claims that a neutral expression is the key to shaving off years.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Chances are that Democrats will again seize on affordability, an issue that helped boost them in the most recent off year elections.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Normally, the voting turnout for off year elections are lower than presidential years.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • That concept, Nix professed in July, is what will keep him from enduring an off year in Year 2.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • These numbers cap off year-over-year increases in book bans and restrictions across the Volunteer State.
    — Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The deals cap off years of struggles for Pizza Hut, which has weighed on Yum’s overall financial performance.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • The project has operated every year since 1979, outside of a few off years, and its primary station is this patio.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 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
  • For an off year, 2025 was a surprisingly busy one in Florida politics.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The project has operated every year since 1979, outside of a few off years, and its primary station is the center’s patio.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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