Sentence examples for thrown off course from inspiring English sources
"thrown off course" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means to be diverted or deviated from the intended direction or plan. Example: The ship was thrown off course by a sudden storm, causing it to reach its destination three days later than planned.
Expectations a decade ago that energy giants would turn to low-carbon power sources – from new nuclear plants to alternative energies such as solar and wind – were thrown off course by the financial crisis and successive governments switching policies and targets.
Any form of birth control that can help prevent unwanted teen pregnancies will lead to more families who are thrilled to welcome their child into the world at the appropriate time in their lives, not have their plans for college and career thrown off course by an unintended pregnancy.
As a result, investigators can be thrown off course during the computation of their qPCR results.
Rosoff is not thrown off course.
The entire region's economic boom could be thrown off course.
Every time he is sailing along, his world is thrown off course.
But the recovery in the global economy is already fragile and could be thrown off course by dearer borrowing.
Throughout the trial, the defendants were thrown off-course as the crown, struggling to keep up, served new evidence that should have been presented before the trial started.
The entire history of the current cinema has been thrown off-course both by the lack of recognition of these films and their directors, actors, and technicians in their own time, and by the absence of the films — both by these artists and by those whom they would have inspired — that should have followed.
Down here, internal compasses are thrown off-course.
As the ships were traveling to the beach, the heavy seas, combined with the chaos of the fighting caused most of the landing force to be thrown off-course and most of the 116th Infantry missed its landing spots.
