How to Use offshoot in a Sentence

offshoot

noun
  • The business started as an offshoot of an established fashion design company.
  • These are offshoots of the road that go up a steep hill.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • But the city's leaders have launched a new offshoot of the slogan: We ❤️ NYC.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Atom-of-thoughts is also an offshoot of chain-of-thought.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And offshoots of the crime will continue to grow even with Price in prison.
    — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Brunel moved to the U.S. in 1995 to start an American offshoot of the agency.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The case is an offshoot of a bigger probe filled with intrigue.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But basically the show is an offshoot of that game set in the same sort of world.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • An offshoot of this is that the pupils will duel in said mobile suits.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • This year, the spot has added a new offshoot under the same roof: 19 Prime Cast Iron Steakhouse.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • But in the 1990s, an offshoot of that kind of play took root in Finland and Scandinavia.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • That church has served as a smaller offshoot of the Gubbio Project since 2015 and is now its last hope.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 2021
  • That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
    — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
    — Chris Megerian, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year.
    — Chris Megerian, ajc, 24 July 2022
  • In the past few years, avid skater Ross revived it and has opened offshoots in London and New York.
    — Merle Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • It’s not unlike the Alien series, where the only post-Aliens hits were the offshoot Alien Vs.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The recent #ENDSars protests are an offshoot of this anger.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Leeds hosts an offshoot of the Bank of England, as well as a new state investment bank.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 June 2022
  • The problem here bounces back to an offshoot of the original question.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • The dance music there changed with the era’s tastes — disco in the early days, techno and its offshoots later on.
    — Curbed, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The nominees for the award show — which is an offshoot of the People's Choice Awards — were announced in August.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And then there was the worst-case scenario: the dark timeline and its offshoot, the darkest-darkest timeline.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Wadyka explains that the item is an offshoot of the corset, made to constrict, conceal, and whittle.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The offshoot is set in the 1990s and is centered on a younger version of the serial killer, this time played by Shadow and Bone’s Patrick Gibson.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • And that requires you to have some level of consistency, and not just to be a bundle of ad hoc offshoots.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • A few weeks ago, a new offshoot of the Covid-19 Omicron variant made up only a small portion of cases in the United States.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Book a room inside the main hotel or at the ultra-luxe 21-room boutique offshoot called Flagler Club.
    — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike the main series, the offshoot isn't a legal drama — rather, it's set in the world of Chicago politics.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • They are bound by their faith, a monotheistic offshoot of Shia Islam which developed in the 10th and 11th centuries.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025

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