How to Use head off in a Sentence

head off

verb
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  • The cage remained in the yard until Tommy headed off to the minor leagues in 2016.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The domain seizures seem designed in part to head off threats of foreign interference in next month's US election.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Cut the head off and three more sprout up in its place.
    — Vulture, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The streets fill with cars as eclipse-chasers head off.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024
  • William bawled his head off from the moment that the photo op started to the end of it.
    — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Crowds looked on as the young men headed off to battle.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The ship will dock with the gas depot, fuel up, and head off toward the moon.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The whole point is in and out, enjoyment, laugh your head off, and get some thrills.
    — Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
  • When your kid heads off to college, there's a whole new world for the new young adult – and the parent – to traverse.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • And when you the quarterback, how many people want to knock your head off?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The disgruntled cabbie ripped the head off the Christ statue.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
  • With that, Jenn heads off to surprise the guys — and pick up the lucky recipient of the week’s first one-on-one date.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 July 2024
  • Roth had chopped the head off a mannequin on set and filled it with spaghetti — gluten free, for Greenblatt.
    — EW.com, 24 July 2024
  • Maybe seeing Taylor Swift yelling her head off at a football game will do the trick.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Others take the title and bare bones of the movie and head off in whole new directions, for better or worse.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Things can blow your head off for all different kinds of reasons.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The move heads off what local and state leaders viewed as the worst of the $312 million in cuts expected to take effect this year.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • So as Cam sends a little warning to the girls in the press, Rebecca heads off to take advantage of their fear.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 8 May 2024
  • On Tuesday, Hilary Duff shared a few adorable snaps of her two little girls headed off to school.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Bouncing his head off the padded back stanchion of the basket to celebrate a bucket.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2022
  • While its load is not near the amount needed to head off a famine, officials said many more ships will take the same journey in the coming days and weeks.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • At one point, Wiley, a devoted angler, broke the head off a fish smothered in onion sauce.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Those changes, adopted in July, were not enough to head off the intense opposition of the Clean Up Samuels group.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Want to head off on your own wine-country jaunt, minus the Sideways drama and tourist traffic?
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Shrimp that’s in the shell will sometimes come with the head attached, which is where most of the fat is concentrated; some like to cook shrimp with the heads on, twist the head off and suck out the juices.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 19 July 2023
  • If he’s fired up and gobbling his head off, hit him with some aggressive calling.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
  • But then in August 2022, Aiden himself headed off to college at Chapel Hill.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Counseling is the kind of help that experts believe can help head off such attacks.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • These are the crews that will board up and secure broken doors and windows and help head off further smoke and water damage.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For Charles, showing him with his head off helps with the real-life situation.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024

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