Sentence examples for putting this off from inspiring English sources

The phrase "putting this off" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically means to procrastinate doing something or to delay action on something. For example, "She had been putting off the presentation for weeks, but now she was finally ready to give it."

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"We can't keep on putting this off".

"Here I am putting this off for 22 years.

Putting this off for another generation – the way our parents have – just isn't feasible.

The bid process [for NCAA tournaments] is occurring in the spring, and, at a certain point in the late spring, if we were not to take any action, we really would be putting this off for another year.

And the fact that we have been putting this off decade after decade is a tragedy.

The patriarchal world has been putting this off, but -- time's up.

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But think about a time you put off a task, finally got started, and then, once into it, thought, "I don't know why I kept putting this off--it's going really well.

She puts this off as long as possible.

And we can't put this off any longer.

Don't put this off; tomorrow might be too late.

"Let's put this off into the new year," he said.

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