Sentence examples for device go off from inspiring English sources

"It's really the equivalent of having a nuclear device go off, without the mushroom cloud or radioactivity," Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas said after declaring much of his state a disaster area.

Before something like a tornado, the text should arrive on most smart phones at about the same time that alert sirens, an old-fashioned but still effective communications device, go off.

Months earlier, a similar device went off but just missed killing a Saudi minister.

"Every time that an explosive device went off, somebody took a shot".

The device went off between the lieutenant's vehicle and the one behind it.

That device went off around 9 30 a.m. near the boardwalk in Seaside Park, according to the Ocean County sheriff, Michael G. Mastronardy.

One improvised explosive device went off in the toilet of an Exeter branch of the restaurant chain Giraffe, injuring Reilly.

Last week three people died when an improvised explosive device went off at a bus shelter while another device exploded outside a hotel used by foreigners.

Two months after he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Army, an explosive device went off under the truck in which he was riding.

The first explosive device went off at about 8.20am in a mailbox on a wall near the administrative entrance to Calvary Baptist.

Police said the makeshift explosive device went off outside the front door of the 60-year-old woman's Limassol home shortly after midnight.