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'put off' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'put off' with 14 example sentences.


put off verb

: hold back to a later time

: cause to feel intense dislike or distaste

: take away the enthusiasm of

: cause to feel embarrassment

: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)


  • Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
  • The meeting was put off until next Friday.
  • The baseball game was put off till next Sunday.
  • He suggested that we should put off our departure.
  • He never puts off anything he has to do.
  • The president put off visiting Japan.
  • We put off the departure till tomorrow.
  • The heavy snow made them put off their departure.
  • The decision was put off.
  • Stop putting off finding a job.
  • Let me put off my decision.
  • You shouldn't put off getting married.
  • Why did you put off the printing of my book?
  • I put off writing for over a month.
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