Sentence examples for be shot off at from inspiring English sources

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.

At Chancellorsville, his right arm was shot off at the shoulder by a cannonball, and he received several flesh wounds in addition.

Because when you're shooting off at the mouth about molecule assemblers and saving the world with an app, you really need to let the audience laugh with you.

Peter remains on Earth (regarded as at rest in an inertial system) while Paul is shot off in a rocket at half the velocity of light, rapidly decelerated at Alpha Centauri (about four light-years away), and shot back to Earth again at the same speed.

(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).

Klinghoffer is shot off stage.

Gabriel Kreuther at Atelier on Central Park South, for instance, has been widely praised for his brilliance with Greenmarket herbs and vegetables -- "Combining Greenmarket produce with Continental flair, Atelier is shooting off sparks at the new Ritz hotel......

People at that time were shooting off to America for three times the salary.

"A lot of times, the problem with enforcing the use of illegal fireworks has been that they get shot off at someone's property, and when the fireworks suppression team shows up, everybody scatters," Councilwoman Connie Boardman said.

He shot off at nine and was almost immediately out of sight.

I shot off at the mouth about them and it was childish and they deserved better.