Sentence examples for go off once from inspiring English sources

I haven't had the lights go off once.

And they did go off once readers started reacting to the post.

The plan to devolve almost £50bn to the regions to boost growth sounds like the sort of thing politicians love to espouse in opposition, but quickly go off once in power.

(For instance, Mr. McAndrews noted that there is a panic button in every room, and that in the accumulated years he spent in Nevada on the project, he said he only witnessed the alarm go off once — when he nudged it with his gear).

People now in their 20's and 30's can't remember ever being on an airplane and seeing the "No Smoking" light go off once the plane reached proper altitude.

While it isn't yet clear whether mechanical failure or human error is to blame for either case, initial media reports about UH Fertility Center indicate that multiple alarms were supposed to go off once temperatures began climbing ― but that the laboratory was not staffed the night before the discovery. .

You can imagine how many alarm bells would have gone off once we'd discovered they were taking flying lessons!

He had five white shirts and — since the college laundry went off once a week — he had to keep one shirt going for two or three days.

But at some point, as everyone was gathered in the hallway, the gun, which has no trigger guard, fell out of his waistband, according to the police, hit the floor and went off once.

The question "Is it art?" also hangs in the air when Trisha Donnelly's "Cannon" makes its presence felt: a sound piece using the sound of a World War I cannon firing, it goes off once an hour.

She admits her own phone went off once while she was in the audience at London's intimate 250-seat Donmar Warehouse.