Sentence examples for off for a time from inspiring English sources

One of the voices in the obituary film is out of sync with the lip movements; cars break down; Locke and The Girl, trying to make contact on the roof of a Gaudi structure in Barcelona, are cut off for a time by a barrier even when they are only yards apart.

Because their electric motors are quieter than nuclear units (and can even be shut off for a time), they are sometimes proposed as antisubmarine ambushers that would silently await their prey in areas through which enemy submarines are known to pass.

Studies of established herds have shown that young elephants stay within 15 feet of their mothers for nearly all of their first eight years of life, after which young females are socialized into the matriarchal network, while young males go off for a time into an all-male social group before coming back into the fold as mature adults.

Babbitt deferred loan repayments and was then laid off for a time.

Back off for a time but persevere gradually.

Another Beattie winner helped the cause too, but with Ebata always dangerous they fell 7-18 behind causing Cooper to hook them off for a time-out and give them an audible dressing down.

I was off sick for a time.

True, the huge costs of German unity after 1990 blew the government off course for a time.

He played in bands that never quite took off and for a time worked as a film-score composer.

"If it is a relatively low priority and needs funding, we would put off listing for a time," Michael Cook, the director of Superfund remediation for the agency, said.

He had done what he said he would – cut it off – and for a time Treays seriously considered "knocking it on the head, leaving it at two albums".