Sentence examples for kept setting off from inspiring English sources
"One guy kept setting off the metal detector and finally he pulled his phone out of his underpants," the guard said.
The phone kept ringing yesterday at the office of Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, who was asked to strip to his underwear on Saturday before boarding an airplane because his artificial hip kept setting off security alarms.
I was surprised, for example, when I discovered that the reason I kept setting off metal detectors was that Dr. Stu placed a tracking device in my gums during an unauthorized surgical procedure.
Later, a man trying to pass through a metal detector kept setting off alarms while stern inspectors had him remove his clothes, item by item, until the offending metal object was found: a filling in a tooth.
When he ran for president in 1992, Mr. Buchanan claimed to be an outsider, even though he was a Washington native, an aide to three presidents and a D.C. pundit who lived so close to C.I.A. headquarters that his cat kept setting off the security sensors buried in the woods.
Their unpopularity guaranteed Sunderland the support of pretty much the rest of the country, while their professionalism came to seem like negativity and paranoia alongside Sunderland's relaxed approach, exemplified by Billy Hughes and the laughing box he kept setting off in interviews.
But she has run into another problem: "I keep setting off the smoke alarm".
For example, if passing cars or moving branches outside the window keep setting off unwanted YouTube clips, you can draw a box on the video preview with your finger, limiting motion detection to a certain part of the scene.
From the gangsters' mapping the neighborhood and casing the joint to their using props as mundane as an ordinary umbrella to keep from setting off a sensitive alarm, this is galvanic cinema.
That would help the drugs enter cells and keep them from setting off the immune system.
