Sentence examples for igniting off from inspiring English sources

At first I suspected Viv had spontaneously combusted, a result of the hairspray that supports her beehive igniting off the fumes of the gin she's always drinking.

They began to respond, but the cloud ignited, setting off the larger explosion.

In some cases e.g., with ammonium diuranate the yellow cake is ignited, driving off the ammonia and oxidizing the uranium to produce uranium trioxide (UO3) or the more complex triuranium octoxide (U3O8).

The publishing company Knight Ridder reported a continuing slump in advertising yesterday and lowered its third-quarter earnings estimate, igniting a sell-off in newspaper stocks.

As a last resort, you may connect to the negative post of the dead battery, but this risks igniting hydrogen gas coming off the battery.

Still, this risky bit of intrigue is mere pretext for the smoldering romance that ignites on- (and off-) camera between Morgan and alluring chanteuse Marie (Bacall, then just 19).

But the good news was tempered by United's warning of weaker earnings in the current quarter, igniting a large sell-off of airline stocks, led by UAL.

Not only are President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. opposed philosophically to trying to influence currency markets, there is also the concern that any overt support for the dollar might backfire, igniting a panic sell-off of more dollars.

The Shanghai stock market plunged 9%, igniting a global sell-off that resulted in a 41-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.

But once a solid-fuel rocket is ignited, it is off like a firework and keeps going until all the fuel is burned up.

The bomb that was ignited Sunday went off at 11 a.m. inside a shopping center run by a company belonging to one of Greece's wealthiest men, Spiros Latsis.