How to Use go off in a Sentence

go off

verb

• The event didn’t go off as planned; the city hadn’t installed the sign in time.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• State police said the Odyssey went off the road and hit a tree.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2025
• Inevitably, the top would burn and the smoke alarm would go off.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2020
• The timer goes off, and your potatoes are ready to mash.
  — Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
• The goal was always to kind of go off track, and that would be the best part.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• The kids were asleep in their bedrooms right across the hall when the gun went off.
  — Jason Pohl, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
• Halls was three feet away from Hutchins when the gun went off.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• The blast goes off while the Prices are detained at the airport.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
• Satisfied, the men secured their ropes to the top of the roof and went off the edge.
  — Jake Offenhartz, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• Some folks like to sleep in until the alarm goes off a few times.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2025
• And that is really when the whole thing went off the rails.
  — CBS News, 30 July 2023
• The light will turn red, and a red light camera will go off.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2024
• The puck went off the inside of his leg and beat Jake Oettinger.
  — Joe Smith, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
• The artists are the ones who have to go off and actually make the movie and do all the work.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2022
• The luck of this feels like a ticking clock, which might, at any time, go off.
  — Tessa Fontaine, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• Then, DeGuerin says the gun went off one more time and the third shot hit Patricia in the arm.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2025
• Her boyfriend at the time of the invasion went off to fight and was wounded.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• Oh, and the fart app can now go off as soon as someone sits down on a seat.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 2 Dec. 2024
• Once the livestreams roll, though, things can quickly go off the rails, and often do.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Jan. 2021
• Five of them would go off to the Civil War as Union soldiers.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The wisps were always going off to the right or the left, depending on the style.
  — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• The bluffs where trail will be created is where a train went off the tracks and fell to the beach in 1940, Smith said.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
• Nobody 2 comes out three years to the day since Better Call Saul went off the air.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
• Google is rolling out a fix for a bug that made Pixel Watch alarms go off at the wrong time.
  — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Tahoe subsequently went off the road and flipped over.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• But Phoenix and Kirby would go off script in the moment, which was the case during the slap scene.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 July 2023
• Didn’t all young people go off to seek their fortune, like in the fairy tales?
  — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
• And if your visit goes off without a hitch, the feeling will be almost as sweet as watching Messi find the back of the net.
  — Dave Lieber mar. 11, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
• Their conversation would often go off the rails thanks to humous asides and stories.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026
• Berger’s 7-iron went off the back of the green and led to a bogey when his missed his comeback putt from 8 feet.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026