Sentence examples for fire going off from inspiring English sources

"I'd hear loud machine-gun fire going off in the middle of the night," he said, "and I was just tempted to reach for my weapon".

But those fired went off to teach at smaller, more tolerant colleges or Open Learning Centers, and many wives left behind got over the shock and took up the costumes, the sexual nonchalance of the girls who had tempted their men.

The trade-off between false alarms and misses also explains why we all have to put up with fire alarms going off when there isn't a fire.

Was a fire alarm going off?

The stress response is a reaction to an external threat, for example a fire alarm going off.

So, apart from the fire alarm going off just before we finished recording, it went well.

I could hear a fire alarm going off inside, and my mother's yelling.

But I don't recall the fire alarm going off the entire time we were locked down.

I don't remember the fire alarm going off the whole time when I was trapped in the [Columbine high] school, but apparently it was.

There were dead bodies, fires, gunshots going off, rapes.

A fire alarm keeps going off — routine testing, he's told.