Sentence examples for shooting set off from inspiring English sources
News of the shooting set off panic among families and friends of the base personnel.
The shooting set off a late-night alarm across the Washington commuter region.
It comes nearly a year after the shooting set off a national discussion about gun control, mental health and violence in American popular culture.
A1 The shooting set off alarm in courts across the country, prompting discussion among judges and law-enforcement officers over how to improve courthouse safety.
The shooting set off a manhunt that backed up traffic for miles and prompted the lockdown of every public school in Broward County for several hours.
The shooting set off a manhunt for the suspect at the West Brighton Houses, the scene three years ago of the fatal shooting of a police officer.
Mr. Zimmerman was not arrested until six weeks after the shooting, setting off protests and cries of racial injustice.
The McDonald settlement came months before Officer Van Dyke was charged with murder and city officials released police dashboard camera video of the shooting, setting off weeks of protests.
They said they thought it was a gun and began shooting, setting off a chaotic hail of ricocheting bullets and muzzle flashes that made it seem as if they were in a firefight.
The bombing, aimed at the funeral of a Shiite man who had been shot, set off chaos in the city of a million people on the edge of Pakistan's tribal areas.
The woman tried to detonate her explosives after being stopped near an office for the Awakening Council there, and was shot, setting off the explosives.
