Sentence examples for off fires from inspiring English sources

Merchants used them to ward off fires in their storehouses.

In two cases, he said, military aircraft engaged in training exercises set off fires.

Hundreds had been killed in their barracks, and rockets fired by the commandos had touched off fires in installations & equipment.

An intentional detonation of a 550-pound World War II bomb found in Munich set off fires late Tuesday that damaged a shop and nearby apartment buildings.

On July 20, a power surge set off fires in two new high-rises there, injuring four people and prompting complaints that fire alarms had failed to function.

"I do not like the possibility that German aircraft could crash on my land, setting off fires and killing my cattle".

Might the world's intelligence agencies be better off firing all their spies?

And then switch the television off, fire up your TiVo and savor "Miss Match" again.

Mary Lee, who has a satellite tag, was off Fire Island last May.

Photographs showed thousands of Corinthians fans inside the departure hall where they chanted, waved banners and set off fire extinguishers.

It ran aground on a sandbar off Fire Island, only a few hundred yards from the beach.