Offing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OFFING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• that part of the sea that is distant yet seen from the shore
• the more distant part of the sea in view.
• area of the sea visible from the shore
• That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
• the near or foreseeable future
• the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to go away
• the near future

Words related to OFFING

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Words that contain OFFING

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How to use OFFING in a sentence

• All this was done tranquilly, as if the appearance of the stranger in the offing gave no trouble to any in le Feu-Follet.
• Nothing resembling the lugger was visible in the offing, among the islands, or in the bays.
• In the afternoon we again ascended the hills over the anchorage and had a more favourable opportunity of seeing the reefs in the offing, several of which were set.
• By the Neshamony, which saw her into the offing, letters were sent back to the Reef, when the governor squared away for his port.
• A French squadron, under Captain Tronjoly, soon after appearing in the offing, Vernon gave chase, and on the 10th an action ensued.
• Ovando would not have riot and disturbance if twenty Admirals hung in the offing! He kept us waiting.
• In the morning we had an offing of at least a hundred and twenty miles, and nothing was in sight.
• On the whole he thought it best to keep the largest possible offing that would still leave the coast within sight.
• It was night when the fleet was lost to sight in the offing.
• Four of his ships were miles off in the offing, but Nelson did not wait for them.
• They knew that the captain had the power to hold them in the offing and prevent their landing so they determined to escape at the first opportunity at Malaga.
• There in the offing was the dangerous rover, lying motionless in a calm, and offering a promising chance for capture.
• One day a ship of the North German Lloyd line was seen in the offing slowly gaining on us.
• In the offing a line of dark blue marked the shores of the island of Gad, where St.
• And why not new worlds? That was the question the officers accompanying Bering asked themselves as the white peaks of Kamchatka faded on the offing.
• Meanwhile, Captain Hull tried to distinguish the animal which had been signaled in the offing.
• In the offing is a low wooded island of more than a mile in diameter.
• In the offing are several rocky islets, particularly one, a high rock, which is very remarkable.
• But even if there had been one, the passage is so strewed with rocks and disturbed by such heavy tide ripples, that it wears a most dangerous appearance from the offing.
• The captain had been greatly excited from the moment he had seen the sail in the offing.
• I had been led to expect this from the fact of our finding the flood-stream coming from the north-east, whereas the direction of it in the offing is North-North-West.
• Three miles in the offing the flood-stream runs from one to two knots to the West-North-West.
• At noon the rocky island was near ten miles astern, and a cluster of four small islets appeared in the offing at the distance of four leagues.
• What he did not see was that Spear hovered in the offing, following them with watchful eyes.
• Langholm took her into dinner the night we dined at Upthorpe, and she was in the offing yesterday when Mrs.
• And all the time the British-man-of-war admired and applauded in the offing.
• Thoughtest that I was lost to thee for ever, Timothy? God whispered in my ears, Timothy answered, that he would bring thee back safely, and the ship is already in offing.
• At odd times, a brig would be seen dropping anchor in the offing.
• A wreck shows you where the reef is, perhaps, but not how to manage a ship in the offing.

Similar words containing OFF without suffix ing

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