How to Use go off in a Sentence

go off

verb

• 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
• Five of them would go off to the Civil War as Union soldiers.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• Then an enormous blast went off, sending a plume of dust and smoke into the air.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• During the fire, the school’s sprinklers went off, but the alarm didn’t activate.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
• Kari went off and did the Wind River sequel, but she’s still attached to it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
• For example, one of his clients might miss a dive on a trip, but the rest of the tour will go off without a hitch.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• When the timer goes off, use a pair of tongs to remove a bean and taste for a crisp-tender (not mushy) texture.
  — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2023
• Mikhail reached a Ukrainian trench and jumped, only to see a red flare go off when one of the Russians hit a trip wire.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• Aaron Rodgers went off on a lot of people and concepts Tuesday.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• The crash occurred when the driver veered right and her Ford Edge went off the road and rolled multiple times, Grieshaber said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Matt snuggles me for eight minutes until the snooze alarm on my iPhone goes off.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Saint then threw his head back and shot his arms up as fireworks went off at the stadium.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• Smith arrived, tuned the junkyard radio to Golden Oldies, and went off for a nap.
  — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023
• As some marchers scramble into a nearby patch of woods, a flash-bang goes off.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
• The beeping warnings for quakes went off on their cellphones.
  — Yuri Kageyama, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024