How to Use off campus in a Sentence

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  • The suspect was arrested off campus, but was released and barred from campus.
    — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 19 June 2024
  • Why at a critical juncture in the protest did these student activists assemble at one location off campus to get their marching orders from one man?
    — Sam Faddis, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
  • And those of us off campus are fortunate that’s the case.
    — Kara Milstein, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • Workman said the student was shot while off campus and returned to the school to seek help.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The other day, a guy walks by [the pro-life table] and said get off campus and kill yourselves.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The incident took place off campus, the school's statement said.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Until completed, students will be forced off campus, but the project would be worth the wait.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • So Jackson found people on and off campus who provide these services and wrote about them for the Vidette.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The next day, the principal, along with sheriff’s deputies, met with Jane Doe’s father off campus.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And the Dons are playing this critical home game off campus at the Warriors’ Chase Center.
    — Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Martin had her students pile into her car and drove them off campus.
    — Ken Ritter and Rio Yamat The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
  • My first apartment off campus was on 62nd between Second and Third.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But some patients may be taken to receive them off campus.
    — Aneri Pattani, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • At my request, Tian invited a handful of classmates to join us for lunch at a Szechuan restaurant off campus and talk about AI.
    — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The student who allegedly made the threat was found off campus with a weapon and taken to the juvenile detention center.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This forced many students to compete for lodging just off campus, where rents were — and still are —skyrocketing.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The campus culture war is playing out in large part off campus: primarily, in the media.
    — Claire Potter, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
  • Jobs might be related to your area of study or be community work, either on or off campus.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • Eleven days later, the four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death overnight in a home just off campus in Moscow, Idaho.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The handy bag can easily be taken to a laundromat on or off campus, or brought along on an impromptu weekend trip back home.
    — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Students with financial need may qualify for the work-study program, which provides part-time jobs on or off campus.
    — Rebecca Safier, wsj.com, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Getting the man off campus moved the nearly 1,200 students from potential victims to safety.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The shooter shot himself and died after being confronted by police off campus a few hours after the shooting.
    — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Kabara said that, based on the information shared with the district, the encounter was an isolated incident that occurred off campus.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2024
  • International students are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week off campus while studying.
    — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The driver of a white SUV just off campus tentatively rolled down his window to reveal five hungry students packed inside.
    — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The next night, on Tuesday, the 64-year-old silver-haired scholar stepped outside his apartment building, located off campus across the street from Columbia.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • In the meantime, a responsible adult off campus is giving the kids a free vocabulary lecture.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Even students who face short distances to exams report being reluctant to seek care off campus.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • And then whoever was left at that point, Wayne State University police moved in and kind of ushered everybody off campus.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2024

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