Sentence examples for be shot off from inspiring English sources

The Possessed were so relentless that they clung to the runners, actually had to be shot off.

The first winner is Al Gore, who, as it turned out, was eager to leave Earth in the Balance and be shot off the planet.

As everyone knows by this time, the Bremen is spacious, fast, has an airplane that can be shot off the top deck, and is modernistic, but not pugnaciously so.

He doesn't understand French and plans to catch forty winks, but is extremely apprehensive throughout, because he knows a revolver is going to be shot off in the last act.

In the same letter he suggested that, if necessary, cannons be shot off at sunrise to ensure that laggards get out of bed, and described a friend's insistence that opening the shutters to greet the dawn lets out the darkness rather than bringing in the light.

The fireworks will be shot off a barge that's anchored offshore of Doheny State Beach.

So I'll be shooting off to Spain to see them and whatever will be, will be.

I doubt very much that they're going to be shooting off these bombs again in the atmosphere".

(Imagine a cannonball that was shot off a cliff, compared to one shot at a hill that rolls down and is stopped by the ground cover).

His lower jaw was shot off.

Other men, whose legs had been shot off slumped in their harness.