Examples of 'go off' in a sentence

Meaning of "go off"

The phrase 'go off' has multiple meanings depending on the context. It can mean to explode or emit a sudden loud noise, to leave or depart from a place, to stop working or functioning properly, or to suddenly become angry or have an outburst of emotion. The specific meaning can be determined based on the surrounding context
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  • To explode.
  • To fire, especially accidentally.
  • To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
  • To begin clanging or making noise.

How to use "go off" in a sentence

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Sean has agreed to go off his medication.
You go off and join the government.
I want this game to go off without a hitch.
You go off and do your own thing.
I did not mean to go off on you last night.
You go off chasing these pipe dreams.
That stuff will go off if you sneeze.
They go off to college and grow apart.
Could be synched to go off at the same time.
He can go off and think as much as he wants.
The unveiling must go off without a hitch.
You go off on people all the time.
The way you go off your head.
All the other programme indicators go off.
It will go off when the trigger is released.

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Every troubled person could go off soon.
Paul would not go off without telling me.
No one knows if any more bombs are going to go off.
No soldier may go off carrying wounded men.
Call me when you are ready to go off shift.
Some people go off the deep end.
Just a witness description of our perps to go off of.
The three of them go off on a drinking binge.
The indicator lights of the buttons go off.
You would go off and gamble it away.
But the alarm clock did not go off.
These could go off and hurt somebody.
Then the alarm will still go off.
Do not make me go off with them yet.
I think we need to let this thing go off.
I saw you go off with that woman.
Nobody wants to hear guns go off in there.
I got to go off somewhere and swallow lead.
The lamp does not go off even when.
You go off and have your bath.
Sometimes you gotta go off the reservation.
Twenty bucks says it will not go off.
The bomb could go off any second.
The breaker switch would often go off.
A bomb is gonna go off any second now.
A shell landed there and did not go off.
The monitors go off all the time.
The indicator light does not go off even.
The alarm will go off in two minutes.
We do not have enough information to go off of here.
Let us not go off the deep end.
We had a lot of burglar alarms go off in town.
You do not go off piste and we always do.
I know those lights did not go off by themselves.
Primed to go off right over his head.

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