Sentence examples for is shot off from inspiring English sources
Peter remains on Earth (regarded as at rest in an inertial system) while Paul is shot off in a rocket at half the velocity of light, rapidly decelerated at Alpha Centauri (about four light-years away), and shot back to Earth again at the same speed.
W. W. Norton is publishing Melvin Jules Bukiet's novel "Strange Fire," in which the main character is a blind homosexual whose left ear is shot off -- an intriguing collection of troubles for a single character to cope with in 337 pages.
Klinghoffer is shot off stage.
Here, our nuke is shot off as a warning.
All of a sudden the queen of somber is shooting off sparks of light.
Gabriel Kreuther at Atelier on Central Park South, for instance, has been widely praised for his brilliance with Greenmarket herbs and vegetables -- "Combining Greenmarket produce with Continental flair, Atelier is shooting off sparks at the new Ritz hotel......
"At first I heard a couple of pops, and since it's kind of close to Fourth of July, I thought maybe someone is shooting off fireworks," she told The Huffington Post on Friday.
You cannot get a good cut when your plasma arc is shooting off to the side.
(Imagine a cannonball that was shot off a cliff, compared to one shot at a hill that rolls down and is stopped by the ground cover).
His lower jaw was shot off.
Other men, whose legs had been shot off slumped in their harness.
