Sentence examples for pounds going off from inspiring English sources
St. Gatien started at 9/4 in a field of twelve, with Bendigo, receiving three pounds, going off the 6/4 favourite.
Their truck was headed to a government building when a roadside bomb, believed to contain at least 200 pounds of explosives, went off, according to police officials.
A truck carrying about 40,000 pounds of French fries went off the freeway and caught fire on the Grapevine early Sunday morning.
In fact, Sidney Crosby, who, Molinari writes, is treated in Philly "like he had been dropped off in the midst of 20,000 Dawg Pound residents who have gone off their medication," thrives on the belligerence.
In the off-season, Rogers lost almost 50 pounds, going from 380 to 334 by the time camp opened.
The homemade bomb, weighing about six and a half pounds and packed with metal shards, went off on Friday evening in a crowded shopping mall in Vantaa, where Mr. Gerdt lived with his parents and attended a technology college.
The first trial, a 17,500-pound catch sold the day before Thanksgiving, went off with few hitches, if sluggishly.
Once you put two pounds of pressure on the wire, there will be an alarm that goes off.
So, with a pounding pulse and no idea how I'd make up the lost time, I went off to get new tires.
