Sentence examples for set things off from inspiring English sources

"A correct curve can really set things off for me.

WHAT set things off was a vote to hire a Long Island lawyer, Albert D'Agostino.

Just like 2007 all it needs is a spark like Northern Rock to set things off again.

But, as with any big event in the calendar, craning your neck watching sometimes brilliant, often quite average explosions in the sky is made much more fun with a banging soundtrack to really set things off in style.

I always try and open with something fresh to set things off – maybe an original production that I've not given any other DJs, like this new 126bpm dark, subby, garage-type track I made the other week.

As so often, Murdoch set things off, destabilising the market by announcing plans to distribute 400,000 copies of a new evening paper every weekday, a declaration of war against the Evening Standard's happy, if unprofitable, monopoly.

Edward Ochab, a transitional figure who held power briefly between the Stalinists and the rise of Gomulka in 1956, tells Toranska of being caught between the rising pressures for freedom inside Poland and the threats by Khrushchev--whose speech to the Soviet 20th Congress had helped set things off--to intervene militarily.

"It's just one of the tools, part of the stimulating stuff that sets things off.

His teenage son, Matt Ben Fosterr), sets things off by trying to shoot his classmate (Zooey Deschanel) with a squirt gun.

It could be a hit on either team's quarterback, which is prohibited under any practice circumstances, that sets things off, or it could be a block below the waist on the line.

Honey Santana, a possibly bipolar single mother living in a trailer park, sets things off with two reasonable actions, given this state of things: she tries to neuter her predatory boss, Louis Piejack, with a crab mallet; and she lures a rude telemarketer, Boyd Shreave, to the Everglades so she can teach him some manners.