Sentence examples for clock set off from inspiring English sources

A dead cat has been tossed onto the stage in lieu of flowers and an alarm clock set off during a quiet scene.

As a preliminary step, Ruest produced an experimental bomb that lacked only dynamite and put it in a cardboard box, and while he and Guay cowered in the next room, the alarm clock set off the detonator and this exploded the detonating cap.

Eventually, we set off.

The boat set off.

We set off.

Then we set off.

She nodded; they set off.

Images later circulated online of the clock used to set off the bomb and the supposed detonator.

He is an alarm clock set to repeatedly resume ringing a few minutes after being switched off.

The first laugh comes after eighteen seconds: an alarm clock, set for six o'clock, begins to beep, and a groping hand turns it off.

The iPod Touch has a built-in Clock app which will set off an alarm at a given time; the iPad doesn't.