Sentence examples for they shoot off from inspiring English sources
"In Florida they shoot off all of them," she said.
"They ask me, 'What do they do, they shoot off fireworks?' But I think it's really cool".
But this time the pyrotechnics are imbued with a wounded humanity, like firecrackers that go "ouch" instead of "pop" or Roman candles that sigh as they shoot off sparks.
They even go out of tune like acoustic instruments – if someone opens a door or if sunlight falls on them they shoot off the grid and suddenly you have a roomful of what sounds like sick bagpipes.
The light turns green and they shoot off, leaving me breathing in diesel fumes behind a 171 bus, which pulls in to a stop as soon as it gets on to the bridge.
The buzz rises to a high-pitched crescendo and, as the lights turn green, they shoot off.
"They shot off the husband last year".
Meyerhold, Tairov, Stanislavski, Nemirovich-Danchenko: they shot off rockets year after year.
They shot off one bullet, and when that seemed to work they tried ten, and then thirty.
Exploding into puff-ball parodies of frightened cats, they shot off back to the house at full speed.
It could have been done; I don't think they shot off a gun, but it was something to make it look like a bullet hole.
