Sentence examples for go off even from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, he asserted, all writers go off, even Nabokov, Updike and Roth.

"She'll go off even money," Frank Carcaterra, a drummer and the longtime bartender at the Parting Glass, said of the filly of the same name, who has raced four times before today.

In my village [in Uttar Pradesh state] guns go off even during small fights.

With a more sophisticated SDR, he could interfere with transmissions, setting the alarm off falsely by telling it doors were opening when they weren't or jamming the system so that it wouldn't go off, even if doors did open.

"When women speak in these circles,"he said, "lightbulbs go off, even for me".

Lights go off, even in nice hotels, and your water might not always be hot, or even running.

Minutes earlier, a fire alarm had gone off — even though there was no fire.

Of course, it went off, even though at one point Skrillex dropped the theme from The Lion King.

We have a microwave that says, "Enjoy your meal!" when the bell goes off, even if you have only warmed up a cup of coffee.

The design calls for cramming so much weapon-grade uranium into the core, they say, that the bomb would inevitably be on the verge of going off -- even while sitting on the workbench.

"But it's impossible to plan because the supply is so erratic". Mr Doungul says rain and high wind always result in power outages and the villagers now joke that "the light goes off even if a dog pees on the pole".