Sentence examples for main off from inspiring English sources

The drugs boost the efficiency of a chemical messenger called GABA, which flips the brain's main "off switch".

that communicate with the valve controller to tell it to turn the water main off when a leak is detected.

He graduates upstairs to the company's main Off Broadway stage with this wry look at human suffering, in which Santino Fontana plays a young man afflicted with unexplained chronic pain.

With his two main off-season objectives fulfilled, Sather will concentrate on goaltenders.

3. DETROIT PISTONS -- Flip Saunders is the team's main off-season acquisition, which means more offense and more Darko Milicic.

Vince Carter, Orlando's main off-season acquisition, had a team-high 29 points for the Magic (6-3).

Fukudome, the Cubs' main off-season acquisition, went 3 for 3, hitting a tying three-run homer in the ninth off Eric Gagné (1-0).

Before the game, they said that Shawn Kemp, their main off-season acquisition, was voluntarily checking himself into a drug rehabilitation program.

Anaheim's main off-season acquisition, Sergei Fedorov, assisted on both power-play goals: by Niclas Havelid, at 14 42 of the first period, and by Rob Niedermayer, at 9 34 of the second.

Two days before their season opener, the Chicago Blackhawks lost their main off-season acquisition yesterday after forward Theo Fleury was suspended indefinitely by the National Hockey League for violation of his substance abuse aftercare program.

Patricia Fitzpatrick, Provincetown's director of tourism, said the main off-season lure is natural beauty: rolling sand dunes that sprout with the color of goldenrod and cranberry bogs, and a sky that blazes crisp blue before giving way to the silver-white light of winter.