How to Use go off in a Sentence

go off

verb

• The event didn’t go off as planned; the city hadn’t installed the sign in time.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Inevitably, the top would burn and the smoke alarm would go off.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2020
• The goal was always to kind of go off track, and that would be the best part.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• Halls was three feet away from Hutchins when the gun went off.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• And that is really when the whole thing went off the rails.
  — CBS News, 30 July 2023
• The light will turn red, and a red light camera will go off.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2024
• The artists are the ones who have to go off and actually make the movie and do all the work.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2022
• The luck of this feels like a ticking clock, which might, at any time, go off.
  — Tessa Fontaine, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• Her boyfriend at the time of the invasion went off to fight and was wounded.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• Once the livestreams roll, though, things can quickly go off the rails, and often do.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Jan. 2021
• Five of them would go off to the Civil War as Union soldiers.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The bluffs where trail will be created is where a train went off the tracks and fell to the beach in 1940, Smith said.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
• Google is rolling out a fix for a bug that made Pixel Watch alarms go off at the wrong time.
  — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Tahoe subsequently went off the road and flipped over.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• But Phoenix and Kirby would go off script in the moment, which was the case during the slap scene.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 July 2023
• The rocket goes off at 8 a.m. setting free six bulls and six steers.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• When and why did China’s relations with the West go off the rails?
  — Andrew Small, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Most people hit snooze when their alarm goes off at 3:30 a.m.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• By the Grace of God the alarm went off after that and yippy hoorah nobody got hurt.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2023
• The runners line up in the blocks, and the packed stadium goes silent in the seconds before the gun goes off.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 20 June 2024
• But many of its young men who went off to fight have returned in caskets.
  — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Vibe: That moment the fireworks go off at the festival.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Some people go off and invent their own ways to fold them.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2024
• The ball went off Mikael Uhre here, the Union were awarded a throw and then earned the corner that led to the equalizer.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• Both vehicles went off the east side of the roadway, where the Acura struck a road sign.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2024
• When your timer goes off, resist the urge to haphazardly pull the cake from the oven.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
• Are alarm bells going off, and is this the right shift in strategy?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• More likely, a sick cat would just go off by itself and die.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
• When someone missed a note or went off in a new direction, the band didn’t panic.
  — Ariel Katz, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• Shaun DuBois, a spokesperson for Phoenix fire, said firefighters were dispatched to the six-story building at around 9:30 a.m. after a fire alarm went off on the building's third floor.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024