Sentence examples for were off work from inspiring English sources
verb
To kill.
- He got in the way so I had him offed.
Many embassy staff members were off work for Thanksgiving, an embassy spokesman said.
It was Holy Week in the heavily Catholic city when Perabo and her crew were there filming, so all the residents of Communa 8 were off work and out of school.
He told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that both he and Violet enjoyed going up to see the race when they were off work.
They were off work for several months.
It was also the day when all the 300 staff were off work.
The city audits found that workers' compensation costs for sworn employees have increased by 35% over the last five years to $141 million in 2014, including salary payments while the employees were off work, medical bills and other related expenses.
"Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays.
His neighbors know only that he is "off work".
In total I was off work for seven months.
I was off work for a very embarrassing five weeks.
