Examples of 'offing' in a sentence
Meaning of "offing"
Offing - (noun) refers to the near or foreseeable future. It is often used in the context of something about to happen or something expected to occur soon
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- The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
- The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
- The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
- present participle of off
How to use "offing" in a sentence
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They got me offing the peckerwood on tape.
When the director starts offing people.
Imagine women offing themselves because of him.
Offing the monsters where we find them.
Treat is in the offing as you can see.
There is no satisfactory agreement in the offing yet.
Offing you is just a bonus part of the job.
Let us not have it go offing our faces.
Something of this nature seems to be in the offing.
A dirty bomb that goes offing your pants.
Many people thought revolution was in the offing.
That nutter going around offing people with balloons.
There is another wine convention in the offing.
She ran offing that direction.
But this is not in the offing as yet.
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The offing of some insects at the same time.
Presidential elections are also in the offing there.
So offing him would be a major coup.
I can see the bailiffs in the offing.
Before offing the poor guy.
And now good time is in the offing.
What they are offing us today is not just for us.
And have them drop me offing HarLem.
In the offing were the atomic bombs.
You had to know this was in the offing.
No rift was in the offing at that time.
An acute supply crisis is not in the offing.
B here did not feel like offing anybody tonight.
Another cycle of violence is likely in the offing.
I just decided that offing him would be more effective.
Neither of these changes is in the immediate offing.
Offing the monsters we find.
Fat grandchildren in the offing with spike.
Offing someone is not easy.
And bad news is certainly in the offing.
Offing yourself is also selfish.
Nor are there likely to be any in the offing.
Been in the offing for months.
With the sole purpose of offing him.
I get offing two hours.
Maybe a new collaborative album in the offing.
Offing people with balloons.
We had no idea this was in the offing.
Talking about offing himself.
A counter without currency is in the offing.
Thinking about offing myself.
A number of pipeline projects are in the offing.
I am gonna start offing people.
But there is some kind of sabotage in the offing.
You rarely hear of people offing themselves because they are dumb.
