Sentence examples for device went off from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

Nick Paumgarten found himself explaining the odd parallel between the bombing attempt and his Talk of the Town story (which went to press Friday night) on what to do if a small nuclear device goes off in New York.

Again Lansley rushed to reassure the select committee telling MPs in October: "This is not a nuclear device going off from the point of view of most of the staff working in the NHS much of this is evolution".

"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.

No one could have imagined an explosive device going off at the end of a marathon nearly two weeks ago in Boston.