Sentence examples for for shooting off from inspiring English sources
When Mr. Matthiessen took the stage, he related an anecdote -- unsurprisingly -- about the time when he, Mr. Plimpton and several others were arrested in East Hampton for shooting off fireworks.
Representative Joe Walsh, a Republican freshman congressman known for legislation like the Save Christmas Act and for shooting off his mouth, is battling Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat and war veteran, in a race that stands out for its saturating quantities of rancor, negativity and outside cash.
A second is that she should not have been fired for shooting off her mouth (being "pro-Israel" should not be a requirement to hold a job in media or anywhere else).
Plaxico Burress was locked up for accidentally shooting off a gun in a club.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was locked up for intentionally shooting off his mouth at his own home.
Targeting specific body parts will disable them; for example, shooting off a leg will cause a Smile to fall to the ground and crawl toward the player.
When the Washington Post published a leaked tape of Donald Trump boasting about groping women this fall, it capped off nearly two decades of politicians being publicly exposed for sexting, shooting off creepy emails to congressional pages, taking "wide stances" in airport bathrooms, and disappearing to canoodle with their secret Argentinian mistresses.
Mr Elwood said it would offer no protection for mouthy teenagers "shooting off their mouths or making...ill-timed, sarcastic comments which wind up getting them thrown in jail".
A video he made, in 2008, with his collaborator Dana Countryman, for their song "Funky Little Space Girl," features the musicians shooting off for "DESTINATION SPACE," with Moog patches sewn onto their spacesuits.
"Both of us put a tremendous amount of hard work and effort into this, just into getting here alone, never mind shooting off for a medal.
The significance of this maneuver was that it was a forerunner of the technique which probably will be used to send men to the moon — two or more spaceships meeting in space, transshipping men and materials, and then shooting off for the moon.
