Sentence examples for were shot off from inspiring English sources

Subscriptions were canceled, letters were shot off, but Ms. Chast's popularity -- and the loyalty of her editor, Lee Lorenz -- prevailed.

Mr. Abdulhamid, who has been looking for his son for three weeks, said his son was arrested because he was at a wedding where guns were shot off in celebration.

Stephen Mallon, a photographer, tagged along with the ocean-bound cars from 2008 to 2010, documenting four reefings, including the images shown here, which were shot off the coasts of Virginia and Delaware, which alone has more than 1,300 subway cars buried off its shore.

It looked like a triumph but has turned out to be a diplomatic own goal.In the 1991 Gulf war, the failure to find Iraq's Scuds before they were shot off to Israel and Saudi Arabia was one of the few military failures of the campaign.

Besides his Canadian accent, which turned Detroit into a three-syllable word (Dee-TROY-it), Lynch was known for his missing arm and shoulder, which were shot off during an attack near Normandy in World War II while he served with the Canadian Army's Essex Scottish Regiment.

Fireworks also were shot off near the LAPD's headquarters.

The remaining four victims were shot off-site.

Rays of gas and dust were shooting off its surface.

On April 22, a group of marines near Kut were shooting off seized Iraqi weapons.

People at that time were shooting off to America for three times the salary.

Posters of Gaddafi had been ripped to pieces, and young men were shooting off guns and fireworks.