How to Use offing in a Sentence

offing

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  • Low- to mid-90s will pepper the South, but records aren’t in the offing — yet.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
  • Readings in the low- to mid-90s will pepper the South, but records aren't in the offing - yet.
    — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • No massive, across-the-board cuts are in the offing for drug prices.
    — Calvin Woodward, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020
  • And more trips are in the offing before the summer is over.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 June 2020
  • With all in the offing against Medvedev, how does Djokovic prepare to be at his best?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Large protests against Line 3 also may be in the offing.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • But with a fresh round of stimulus in the offing, all bets are off.
    — Fortune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Some changes to the team’s defensive staff appear to be in the offing.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • What’s next for you — is there a motherhood project in the offing?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Save for Returnal, of course, all that’s in the offing.
    — Peter Rubin, Wired, 12 May 2021
  • The group plans to be here for about a week, with bear viewing, fishing and a trip to Denali in the offing.
    — Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • No one’s talking and there’s no word if anything might be in the offing.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2020
  • But there are still some new films in the offing before the deluge of big-budget fare.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • None, of course, were in the offing for migrants at this stage of their process of seeking asylum.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Haydee loosened her grip and raised her head to the door, as if wondering if more rats were in the offing.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • When word spread of a new project in the offing, jockeying began in earnest.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The kids are excited because there's ice cream in the offing.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2021
  • The appearance of the first snowdrops, often poking through the snow, is a sure sign that spring is in the offing.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The fifth set was just as back-and-forth as the other four, the mistakes rising with the tension and the history in the offing.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • In other words, no radical changes seem to be in the offing.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • With no more flights in the offing, passengers went to Plan B -- renting a car.
    — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Bulls argue the market is sold out, and that a big second half rally is in the offing.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • More lessons are certain to be in the offing when the Spurs close the first leg of their rodeo trip Wednesday in Oklahoma City.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • There was little sign that a consensus was in the offing.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • That suggests that impeachment could in fact be in the offing.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Some analysts think that could mean a rebound is in the offing.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Another eight-pack could be in the offing the next day, should all four AL series go the distance.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Madara said in the same meeting that federal funding could be in the offing.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 15 July 2021
  • With no grand programs in the offing and no bracing agendas on the horizon, the future might very well be a lot like the present.
    — Ian Volner, ELLE Decor, 21 Oct. 2020
  • But with the coronavirus popping up all over the country, a trip to your favorite tap room isn’t in the offing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2020

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