How to Use fire off in a Sentence

fire off

verb

• The launcher fires off a twin pod of the 13-foot PrSMs.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Two crews with them left to try to cut those fires off.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The singer fires off a text to Kanal, and the four bandmates assemble for a Zoom call.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
• Still, that didn't stop Wethington, who managed to collect the puck and fire off the first goal of the game.
  — Nick Kelly, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• One of the men fired off numerous shots, striking the victim in the head.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• And Burt fires off a text to Padres broadcaster Mark Grant.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• And one more boat catches fire off the coast of Los Angeles.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
• Will some of those fans fire off angry emails to Hartzell or Del Conte?
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
• Barreiro fired off a shot in the madness, hitting no one.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
• As bullets whizz by, gusts of air fire off near the side of attendees’ heads.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
• That will require Tatum and Brown to keep firing off the dribble and barreling to the rim.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• An officer on the scene fired off a single shot, the release said.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
• In the first season, Ava fires off a tweet about an anti-gay senator that gets her fired and kicks off the events of the show.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 23 May 2024
• Pointing their muzzles in the air, soldiers fire off rounds.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The result is that the shooters often have time to fire off rounds and leave the area before the police arrive.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2020
• A couple good swings fired off by JJ and Tyler, but outside of that, we just got beat today.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
• Solano yelled, according to his body-camera video, and raised his own weapon to fire off five shots.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• The short-range ballistic missile was fired off at around 11:05 a.m.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• Trump posted about the case online anyway, firing off about the judge.
  — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• From court Tuesday, Trump fired off a series of social media posts about the case.
  — arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
• Wilcox and Graves described it in interviews as a flippant comment, fired off in the heat of the moment.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Blaster noises from the iconic 1978 shoot-em-up Space Invaders fire off in the background, some of them in reverse.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
• The celebrations — fired off by tourists and locals — went on.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• Maps that help players learn to build a wall, edit a window, and fire off a shot within seconds are a dime a dozen.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• Biden may not fire off as many incendiary tweets as Trump.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
• The first Vulcan rocket fires off its launch pad in Florida.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• Last year, a ferry owned by Grimaldi caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on its way to Italy, killing 11 people.
  — Elise Young, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Then, Quantrill fired off a personal insult at McGuire, and the two players charged at each other.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024
• That comes out to an average of one launch every 2.9 days, so SpaceX's launch teams are used to firing off rockets at a high rate.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2024
• Your instinct might be to fire off a passive-aggressive, office-wide Slack.
  — Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024