How to Use spin-off in a Sentence

spin-off

1 of 2 noun
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  • The second season of The Game of Thrones spin-off will premiere on June 16.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Kaling hasn't totally shut down the idea of doing a spin-off.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2023
  • This is the skin of a spin-off, Bella – or possibly a reboot.
    — Destiny Johnson | Djohnson@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Stamped at the top of the website is a spin-off of Trump's campaign logo, with Haley's name below Trump's.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The group’s smart logistics spin-off, Cainiao, operates the hub.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • As with a spin-off of a popular TV show, the next iteration of a beloved skin-care product has a lot to live up to.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Parkers was a spin-off of Moesha, which starred Brandy as the title character and ran for six seasons.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Since its initial release, the film has had sequels, spin-offs, and even a musical.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • In 2020, with a batch of firings, the couple exited the show and went on to costar in their spin-off series Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky.
    — Julia Meehan, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • The rapper is also slated to star in Knuckles, the Paramount+ Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off series.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 June 2023
  • Additionally, a second Game of Thrones spin-off got the green light to join House of Dragon.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • While season five will still focus on homes in and around the couple’s small town, Bentonville, a spin-off of the popular show is also in the works!
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 12 June 2023
  • Charles and the show’s production company, World of Wonder, have launched multiple spin-offs in the U.S. and abroad.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
  • The Disney+ spin-off first premiered back in 2019 and quickly became the platform’s flagship streamer.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Potential spin-offs for Three's Company were in the cards from the beginning.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Fans may be surprised to know that there technically already is one spin-off of the show called Pearson.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 Aug. 2023
  • So yes, don’t expect a police spin-off from Grey’s Anatomy anytime soon.
    — Luke Winkie, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
  • After starring in seven games (and several spin-offs) over the past two decades, Kiryu deserves a break.
    — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Paramount+ series is a spin-off of Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel 1883.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The twins pitched an idea for another spin-off show, which at first, Disney didn't like, according to a YouTube video Dylan shared in 2013.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In March 2022, a spin-off, Human Resources, premiered on Netflix.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Since The Conjuring first premiered in 2013, there have been two sequels and multiple spin-off films.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The film does not appear to be setting up sequels through cliffhangers, or spin-offs through its characters.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Charles Drucker was appointed as a strategic advisor to guide the spin-off process.
    — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • As of now, there's no word on the possibility of extending the series with a sequel or spin-off.
    — Dayna Haffenden, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • The show emerged as a spin-off from Maude, another sitcom created by Norman Lear.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The spin-off Inhibrx company will be financed by Sanofi with $200 million in cash.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The show ran for four seasons, and a spin-off series set during the French Revolution is reportedly already in the works.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The post-nuclear role-playing video game first came out in October 1997 and has spawned multiple sequels and spin-offs since.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • While the television spin-off is still in development, the film's sequel has already been released.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 4 June 2023
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spin off

2 of 2 verb
  • And then a lot of circumstances are going to take over in the spin off.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The two cars spun off course and Power slammed into a concrete wall.
    — Steve Megargee, ajc, 17 June 2023
  • He’s brought to Villiam’s manor house and left there, at which point Lapvona — both the town and the novel — spin off-kilter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • These survival skills utilized in the show will be the main focus of its new spin off series.
    — al, 4 Aug. 2022
  • She could be spun off into her own series, a kind of Dance Moms with a priceless tiara and a throne as the prizes.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The studio has also had global subscriber growth at Starz, which could be the subject of a sale of spin off.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, some of our favorite characters from the trilogy will reprise their roles for the new spin off.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The pressure is on as the British company prepares to spin off its consumer unit this month.
    — James Paton, Fortune, 3 July 2022
  • This move to spin off this business makes sense for J&J, making the stock more attractive.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Or the kind of slice serve to his backhand in the ad court—Shelton is a lefty—that, when hit just right, spun off the court as much as a foot beyond Cachin’s reach.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But Musk is in no hurry to spin off Starlink, despite excitement over the idea.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The film has since been spun off into a BBC mini-series, in which Graham also stars.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Beem apprehended Meade when his truck spun off the road and into a field.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The Jeffersons spun off from All in the Family in January 1975.
    — Christian John Wikane, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • According to one of its stars, a third film is in the works from the historical-drama franchise, which is spun off of the TV series of the same name.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • When Nico spins off from the anniversaries and starts to do his own thing with it, his ideas are direct bastardizations of Bergson’s thought.
    — Hazlitt, 19 July 2023
  • In the last 20 years, GM, Ford and Stellantis and its predecessors have closed or spun off at least 65 plants, according to the union.
    — Rebecca Greenfield, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Deadline has reported today that there is another film in the Crazy Rich Asians universe in the works—a spin off.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 May 2022
  • In the Google case, some antitrust experts said the government could seek to force the company to spin off its Chrome browser business.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • First, the company abandoned plans to spin off its cloud unit, blaming U.S. rules barring chip sales to China.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • By the end of the year, 3M plans to spin off its health care division — a quarter of the company’s $34 billion in annual revenue.
    — Brooks Johnson and Patrick Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
  • Swedish Match in March paused plans to spin off and list its US cigar business, its second-biggest segment after snus.
    — Reuters, CNN, 10 May 2022
  • The new album has already spun off two singles that have charted on some Billboard radio charts.
    — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Wagner was with Epic, which bought it; in a financial shakeout the next year, Epic would spin off the yard and other assets.
    — al, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Or, perhaps, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners could spin off on its own.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The show would spin off from the streamer’s Peacemaker, which featured a couple of brief appearances from Davis’ Waller in its first season.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2022
  • Eddies that spin off the northern edge of the Gulf Stream trap warmer water from the south; eddies formed from the southern edge carry cool water southward.
    — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • Their thorny flawed catch-as-catch-can humanity now stands in stark contrast to the majority of movies that have been spun off from comic books over the last 40 years.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 June 2023
  • The decline had less to do with investors irate with pharma’s recent penchant to spin off its consumer health divisions.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The company has plans to spin off those stores into a separate company.
    — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022

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