Sentence examples for rocket went off from inspiring English sources
Somewhere in the night a stray rocket went off".
But just its launching was a victory, as a previous launching last fall ended in failure when the rocket went off course.
Tuesday's launching was the third for the Falcon 9 rocket and it followed the same pattern of two earlier ones in 2010, in which a last-minute glitch halted the first attempt before the rocket went off without a hitch on the next try.
Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
An "ecstatic" love scene featuring a stray rocket going off somewhere in the night has earned Ben Okri, winner of several prestigious literary awards, a more ambiguous trophy – the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.
When the shuttle's solid-fuel booster rockets went off, it was like a second sunrise blasting our greasy faces.
That kind of balance is great in games, however, and they really shook my head when rockets went off or guns fired nearby.
Rockets went off behind us, flying south across the desert.
"All these kids wanted to hear were rockets going off.
During their visit to a police station in Sderot, the mayor said, a rocket alarm went off.
The rocket launch went off smoothly at 10 14 a.m. from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying an American, Daniel C. Burbank, and two Russians, Anton N. Shkaplerov and Anatoly A. Ivanishin, on the first trip into orbit by astronauts since the final shuttle flight in July.
