off base

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”

Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.

The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.

In ordinary work, however, it is safer to base the distinction upon size than upon structure.

If he married that base-born creature Dorothy, no respectable person would ever enter the house.