Sentence examples for setting them off from inspiring English sources

We fitted smoke alarms, but as she was constantly setting them off, Mum became canny, learning first to cover them with dishcloths and then somehow, mysteriously, disabling them.

The power of the bombs and the logistical skill in setting them off at the same time took many top officials here by surprise.

Mr. Slater has less to do than the other principals — Oz exists mainly to goose the action by threatening and cajoling his minions and setting them off on absurd tasks.

These four words alone have been highlighted, as if Franzen's own painstaking ways of setting them off from his narrative (a colon, the caps, the olden-times diction and syntax) weren't enough to make ordinary readers pay attention to them.

The Mesoamerican system of thought, recorded in folding-screen books of deerskin or bark paper, was perhaps of even greater importance in setting them off from other New World peoples.

Afghan officials said that three suicide bombers attacked a road construction base on Sunday, killing the security guard at the gate then driving a vehicle laden with explosives into the compound and setting them off.

"Anything could set them off — a spark, a pilot light.

It's possible that a certain movie sets them off, but almost any stimulant or frustration might set them off.

The littlest things set them off to sell everything".

And the bit about the umbrella really set them off.

Brazilians set off fireworks when Germany scored, because they'd bought them anyway, and wanted to set them off.