How To Use Go off In A Sentence

Under the current health care system, when children with type 1 diabetes become young adults, and go off their parents health insurance, they become "uninsurable". GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
In 2004, when Merck's brand of simvastatin, known as Zocor, was about to go off patent, Merck teamed up with Schering-Plough to produce a new patented product called Vytorin, a combination of simvastatin and Zetia. Zetia: Down for the count?
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
We used to go off on little jaunts on it while we were in Panama. Times, Sunday Times
How quickly does your scoff go off? The Sun

The bag is fitted with a special alarm programmed to go off if someone reaches inside.
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
I've set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.
I just hope she doesn't go off the rails again. The Sun
Some may argue that we should look after our own before we go off trying to save the world.
He thinks to himself that, if it were not for war, he would not be about to go off and kill the fellow just like himself in the trenches on the other side of no man's land, but would be sitting down and having a drink with the man.
Is the safe course to go to somebody who already has the title judge or do you look for a governor, do you go off the board? CNN Transcript May 3, 2009
As fluent with their bodies as with language, they sing, sort papers, go berserk, and snap to attention when buzzers go off, signaling the need to receive of send messages.
When a call comes in huge siren horns mounted on poles around town go off with an ear-splitting, undulating scream.
If the leccy goes off and it is probably going to go off this winter anyway you probably need power to keep the central heating boiler working. Weathering the storm
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
He cut his head on countless occasions and, in today's game, he would have had to go off but he never did.
My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
The captain appeased the coolies 'fears by stating that they should go off in the pilot's boat. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place.
They go off with a very intense flash and a loud shout.
And so I wrote my own inaugural address and I had these kind of sempre Sousa marches I would play to rev myself up, and then I'd -- would go off and I would give this talk. Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures
So it turns out that "fondling" is not part of the standard field sobriety test Radio station for blind to go off air, victim of budget cuts. Latest News - UPI.com
EyesOnly on Aug 8, 2008 oh, and to followup, spiderman is a complete d-bag superhero who would get his butt whooped by pretty much any superhero except for maybe "the question" lol, superman would crush him, batman would kill him, the list goes on and on, lol. sorry, i had to go off on that little tangent. Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Café Indigo offers mid-price international cuisine in a stylish setting.
And finally, I managed to nearly finish my postcards for International Women's Day - all that remains to do is the satin stitch around the edges, and they can go off in the post this afternoon, with a March 8th postmark, which is appropriate, if slightly later than I have hoped to have them posted. Sewn but not blogged...
I've set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.
The light should glow for a moment and then go off.
Several weeks after the completion of his work the office lights would go off and on intermittently.
She is now asking her followers to go offline for one week. The Sun
I've heard falconers say that a goshawk is like a loaded gun: you know it will go off but you don't know when. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
It was too much of a coincidence for both an electronic disturbance and a triggered bomb to go off simultaneously.
This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
Don't go off at half cock and accept any offer you'll regret later.
If you go offshore, you may need modems and programs that work with a single sideband or HAM radio, and/or a satellite phone for data transmissions.
The most responsive of the existing modes is airdrop because the aircraft used to conduct airdrop travel very fast and require no cargo offload time.
New Zealanders, it seems, are simply too stupid and ignorant to be able to interpret our own laws properly; instead, we must go offshore.
He's probably just going to go off to college somewhere and forget about me anyways.
The men go off and look for casual labour during the day while women and children spend the day looking for shade.
Why have people go off and restudy it and make fancy expensive new graphics and animations? NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2009 Archives
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
If another bomb were to go off, just who would come through the ceiling?
Secretariat would go off as essentially only cofavorite with Sham; at a 3-2 price, it was, with hindsight, one of the great overlays in thoroughbred racing history. Starr Gazing: The Gelding That Could
I now must collapse in exhaustion from a very painful and quick labor once the epidural wore off (I let it go off after she successfully flipped). A Good Birth | Her Bad Mother
They go off to meetings, seminars, conferences, and never involve anyone at a non-director level.
Let Mr.N. immediately put together _all_ the necessary documents, let his fiancee do the same, and go off to another province, such as Kherson, and there get married. Letters of Anton Chekhov
The bomb was timed to go off at 12 o'clock.
After a half-hour or so, I had to go off and moderate a panel so I excused myself.
The men go off and look for casual labour during the day while women and children spend the day looking for shade.
So it's no wonder they like to offer plenty of freebies to entice you to open an account just as you go off to university as a fresher.
I just hope she doesn't go off the rails again. The Sun
If you want to save leftover wine for cooking, keep it tightly stoppered in the fridge and use within a week; when there's less than half a bottle, decant it into a smaller bottle so it has less contact with the air that makes it go off.
The prizewinners would come on, there'd be nothing to ask them, and they'd go off again.
The buzzers would go off in the night and when the nurses came to see what was wrong they would find the patients fast asleep.
They recognize a lot of policemen who are on the front line are bearing the brunt of insurgent attacks, that when suicide bombs go off, they are often at checkpoints.
There isn't that slightly tatty countryside at the edge of a town which you can go off and explore. Times, Sunday Times
How quickly does your scoff go off? The Sun
`The telex carrying the good news to Bardi will go off first thing tomorrow morning. PROSECUTOR
The camera shutters go off and it sounds like a thousand butterflies taking off. Times, Sunday Times
I said first of all that never happens, you never know a bomb is about to go off and you have all the information you need to stop it except for one piece from someone in custody. Checking in on Thoreau: arguing about John Brown and finding friends in windfall acorns
Salted anchovies probably never go off and the sell-by is probably just to fit the law. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Why don't you turn off your monitor and go off and do something less boring instead?
Many patients end up being prescribed benzos in order to contain them and it can be like a time bomb ready to go off as there is a condition called paradoxical aggression caused by ovr use of medication such as diazepam and lorazepam. The Guardian World News
On the extreme left, crouching low, its arms hanging near its feet, was an ape; it looked intent, like an athlete waiting for the gun to go off.
Then he'd go off and make himself a cup of coffee still deep in thought, sometimes forgetting to add sugar and sometimes adding too much.
I was off-kilter from the start - my alarm didn't go off so I slept in. Impatience: NOT a virtue
Let’s just hope my radiopager doesn’t go off,” she added as she led the way down the alley. Deadline for Murder
she wanted to quit her job but her mother told her not to go off half-cocked
On Thursday, video footage of fire and smoke that activists identified as the Homs pipeline also shows tanks as shooting sounds go off in the background. Pipeline Attack Shakes Syria
You don't need to sacrifice creature comforts or go off into the middle of nowhere to be a green traveler; you can visit big cities or small villages, and stay in small ecolodges or luxury hotels.
Their nasty-yet-comic raison d' être: better being a wandering gigolo than having to go off and get real jobs or - horrors!
If you dump your child in the children's library so you can go off and use the computers, it is not our job to make sure your toddler doesn't toddle right out the front door.
The smart kids get good grades and go off to college.
With the onset of summer, the Big Cats suddenly go off food and spend most of the time in water.
With its implementation, many buses, and two- and three-wheelers will go off the roads, and the traffic can be better managed.
Go off the boil, you are subbed. The Sun
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
But after half an hour we were able to go off-piste. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, it's a little strange to slingshot method balls, then sleep in a bivvy, and wait for the bite alarm to go off on your rod-pod. For the Love of Carp
in order to experience something different, you need to go off the beaten path
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
It was now time to go off and check the lines for burbot.
Thankfully, the alarm didn't go off and the food in the freezer seems to have stayed frozen.
Perhaps you should back down, stop supporting the mass slaughter of unborn babies, and go off somewhere real quiet and decide whether you really want to be a Catholic.
And in the trained-animal world, where turns must go off like clockwork, is little or no space for persuasion. CHAPTER XXXIII
A newcomer to the newsroom with no background in what constitutes libel is a time bomb waiting to go off.
Carl could go off the side of the porch like it was a map out over the river on the 4th of July, back when they still had Julies. DENSITY
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If a less than competent diver wanted to go off alone for photo purposes, a divemaster discreetly shadowed him.
Suddenly, the starting rockets go off and some crazy, idiotic people actually run towards the bulls.
Hollywood prefers lots of flames when grenades or artillery shells go off.
We used to go off on little jaunts on it while we were in Panama. Times, Sunday Times
It's all right, no one keeled over; we got the front and back doors open quick enough that the smoke alarms didn't go off, though it was chilly for a bit as the cold air rushed in. P_n_elrod: A real mystery!
He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited.
Instead of that, he'll go off on his own tack, a renegade, always rebelling. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
It wouldn't do to go off on a sidetrack when the important thing to get done was finding the baby.
But for the ultimate in picnic destinations, we have to go off the beaten track - where there probably aren't any ‘facilities’.
Did the alarm clock go off ?
Canada would monitor their interaction to ensure the inspectors don't go off task.
Did the alarm clock go off ?
We hope the remaining swans will then go off to find food elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
Chicago office with the rest of the daily mail, and the halting quality of the lettering on the envelope suggested a slightly diminished fine motor coordination that often bedevils seniors. Andy Shaw: 'Angels' in Search of a Better Government
The bomb could go off at any instant.
It seems unlikely that they will all go off on holiday for the duration of the election campaign or adopt the equivalent of the ministerial purdah.
A lot of horses will go off their feed when they change stabling or environment.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter.
The bomb contained a timing device set to make it go off at rush hour.
I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch.
It has become a macabre ritual here: the bombs go off, pandemonium, followed by investigation.
‘In the old days in a bad rainstorm, the farmer went out with a hoe and cut herringbones off the side of the road, so the water would go off the side instead of washing out the middle of the road,’ Lanoie said.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
The camera shutters go off and it sounds like a thousand butterflies taking off. Times, Sunday Times
Dan knew that it would require the perfect timing for everything to work and go off without a hitch.
He also claims to diffuse any rising panic with what seems a painful rigmarole - setting an alarm to go off hourly three hours before he is due to rise, to try to confront his nerves head - on before they grow to menacing size.
We were gonna go off to church again tonight, but there was no-one to look after Boo.
Anyway, on one particular occasion that's floated unbidden into my memory today, I was allowed to go off over the park and up to the main road with Johnny-next-door, just so long as I behaved myself.
First, you need to get your facts straight before you go off on a tangent like that.
He asked her how she could bear to go off chambermaiding and leave her boys; and chaffingly offered to copy off a series of their fingerprints, reaching up to their twelfth year, for her to remember them by; but she sobered in a moment, wondering if he suspected anything; then she said she believed she didn't want them. Pudd'nhead Wilson
The dining room of a small hotel on Tobago offers a poolside seat.
So when they meet these days, they exchange a series of secret signs and code words, and then they go off into a huddle together and giggle a lot.
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
The fertilised females go off on their own looking for hedge sparrow or reed warbler nests. Times, Sunday Times
I isolated four or five boxes of computer programming and software engineering books, sighed, and consigned them to the heap to go off for recycling.
A proximity alert started to go off in the meanwhile - two Crab fighters were trailing him.
This allows the brain to go offline and pack away that day's information. Times, Sunday Times
Go off-piste only if your policy covers you? Times, Sunday Times
Good and I sure hope that people watch the video before they go off half calked and say things that are stupid. Obama's political arm release new health care video
Of these would have to be included, borage Borago officinalis, violets and violas viola sp., pot marigolds Calendula officinalis, sweet bergamot or bee balm Monarda didyma, to name just a few, all of which are suitable for adding to salads.
Why have people go off and restudy it and make fancy (expensive) new graphics and animations? NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
The bomb contained a timing device set to make it go off at rush hour.
Massa Randall had told her not to go nowhe 'bout dat boat, but some people is sorta high strung like en dey go off anyhow no matter bout de whip. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
An angry insurance salesman wants to go off somewhere else, and does. Times, Sunday Times
`The telex carrying the good news to Bardi will go off first thing tomorrow morning. PROSECUTOR
That he can write lines surpassing -- aye! "she cried," _surpassing_ Polonius's advice to his son, and leave them uncopied on an ale-house table to go off with the first loose woman who comes by, and be carried home, too drunk to walk, the next morning, roaring out hymns about eternal salvation. Nancy Stair A Novel
The smoke alarm did indeed go off, and the candles were so waxily embedded in to the cakey goodness that it was well beyond eating.
Nickel, rhodium, and iridium have their uses, and from there you go off into some real esoterica.
San Diego officials are encouraging the building of fiber-optic networks through the City of the Future program, announced earlier this month.
In the feverish TV debates the questions come from the audience, but that distinction is pretty minor since no audience member is invited to go off-piste with his or her inquiry.
Sometimes people in the public limelight after a few marriages go off and get married.
Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch.
Pull as much trump as you can without giving away the lead before you go off into another suit.
When some in the media go off-message over something like MMR, public health professionals complain that they are acting irresponsibly.
Bonfire night celebrations in Middleton, near Pickering, may go off with a whimper rather than a bang this year after the village bonfire party was cancelled.
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
Having since upgraded the alarm system to go off if so much as a fly touches our windows, I must try to remember that an alarm system that is not on is not an alarm system.
He's intense and serious about the work, but sometimes he'll go off on a comic riff.
Almost embarrassedly, Scotland Yard tried to fluff up the dying story on Wednesday with the pseudo-revelation that one of the bombs might have been intended to go off as a cargo plane flew over an East Coast U.S. city on Oct. 29. Al Qaeda Discovers the Mail Bomb
Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found.
The Philadelphia is attached to the Parmigiana restaurant and I have witnessed more than one gourmet in this fine establishment ask Sandro, il padrone, if they can go off the menu and have a fish supper sent though from the Phillie.
But then it starts to go off course, “Those ’savages’ are only wild in the sense that we call fruits wild when they are produced by Nature in her ordinary course; whereas it is fruit which we have artificially perverted and misled from the common order which we ought to call savage.” Savage Fruit « So Many Books
In order for a bomb like this to go off in mid-flight, considering it was in cargo, it would have had to have some kind of automatic detonator built into it, like an altimeter switch that would set it off at a certain altitude or a timer. Suspect In Custody As Bomb Investigation Goes On
I was expelled and I had to go to another school; I didn't want to go through all the ‘fitting in stages’ again so I started nicking off and this is when I started to go off the rails.
This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
It makes me feel uncomfy but I don't know why and I worry slightly that it might become ‘hip’ to go off and be ‘spiritually enlightened’.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Well, yes, they go off and they find that these people have been immured in these caves until death.
But while an act of self-control can restore the proper temper and balance to the mind when it is in danger, _the best way is to keep it so that it will not go off the balance_. Life and Conduct
Let's stay with the topic and not go off at a tangent.
Maybe one day I'll take a fancy to one of them and go off to live like a lady, and not be treated like a great strapping bosthoon of a hired hand.
Many of the Andorran slopes are treeless, but Grau Roig has some nice runs where you can go off-piste among sparse woods. Why Skiiing In Andorra Makes For A Great Vacation
How quickly does your scoff go off? The Sun
The bomb contained a timing device set to make it go off at rush hour.
The street lights come on at dusk and go off at dawn.
I'd love to be put into your sample draw please, and in the meantime will go off to the shops this pm and smell ananas fizz... Pineapple wars: Jean Patou Colony versus the modern world (And a giveaway)
I thought he was a goner - the car was just about to go off the side of the road, but I kept talking to him and eventually gave him the confidence to get out of the car.
First, boys go off by themselves to their own destruction; secondly, home influences withdrawn; and, thirdly, -- at Harvard, which the only college I ever visited, -- the thorough comeliness which is found in the lower grades of schools does not appeal. Gala-days
He look des lack he'd los 'sump'n fer a day er so atter de ham wuz tuk off, en didn' 'pear ter know w'at ter do wid hisse'f; en fine'ly he up'n tuk'n tied a lightered-knot ter a string, en hid it under de flo 'er his cabin, en w'en nobody wuzn' lookin 'he'd take it out en hang it roun' his neck, en go off in de woods en holler en sing; en he allus tied it roun 'his neck w'en he went ter sleep. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
The foreign owner of a factory, farm, forest or beach-house can go off in a huff, but the physical entity remains.
The rest of the class went easily enough, but he was glad to hear the bell go off.
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds.
So have I, actually, because I taped it three days ago off MTV2 and have a pause button on my video recorder.
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
They say one in every five bombs, bomblets, and artillery shells doesn't go off, and lies in wait, sometimes years, for the unwary or unlucky.
The bomb was timed to go off at 12 o'clock.
At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating, have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven on earth all to themselves. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
Who wants to go offline to complete an online payment transaction, anyway?
We have said that The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a psychomachia, and when Auberon and Adam go off together on the twenty-first birthday, it is an end to the Romance of growing up, or perhaps of the Romance of Youth. Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
The cell measures the level of light and sets the street light to come on and go off at fixed levels.
From day five to day 25, the software system triggered the lights to go off for nine hours a day, giving us plenty of time to keep eating but not so much that we would overtax our hearts or bones.
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
I kept putting her off, telling her it was too soon and if we bought it too early it would go off.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Of course, no soldier would dare go off into battle without a sidearm and trusty combat knife, and a well-thrown hand grenade or a well-placed claymore mine can likewise serve you well.
If you 'zone out', you mentally drift away from the place you are currently, and go off into empty, dreamy space.
He fired but his pistol failed to go off.
One of his great interests was caravanning and he and mum would go off on holidays just about every weekend.
An alarm can be set to go off once, daily, weekly, monthly or annually, with very flexible scheduling.
In his first start at third, Soriano - a natural shortstop - misplayed one bouncer, letting it go off his glove, and let another fast grounder get by him.
Don't go off at half cock and accept any offer you'll regret later.
The fertilised females go off on their own looking for hedge sparrow or reed warbler nests. Times, Sunday Times
In the task of fortifying oneself with supportive personal relationships, compadrazgo offers extensive manipulative opportunities.
Although most dives are divemaster led, divers in buddy pairs are free to go off on their own.
(GEORGE _and_ BRIAN _go off at windows up_ L.) (DINAH _follows up_ R. _and watches them off_.) Mr. Pim Passes By
Not one of them heard another bomb go off or any sort of loud kaboom, so how this came about was a mystery to them all.

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