How to Use go off in a Sentence

go off

verb
  • The alarm on my phone went off.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The timer went off on her phone.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And then things went off the rails.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s when the light bulb goes off.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t go off-trail or jump fences.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 June 2026
  • When the time went off, all was fine.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 22 May 2026
  • And then doesn’t go off and blast him.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Fans feel like the show has gone off the rails.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 13 Apr. 2026
  • When the share price goes off, falls off the cliff.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • When an alarm goes off, is snoozed, or is stopped.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The gun went off, but no one was shot or stabbed.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026
  • When the team hit a homer, the thing would go off.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • If they are not warned and the bomb goes off, dozens will die.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The puck went off him and into the net.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s all fans needed to go off.
    — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2026
  • Brunson goes off at some point each game.
    — Esfandiar Baraheni, New York Times, 24 May 2026
  • The footwork went off the charts.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Michael just went off to college.
    — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • That is how megaprojects go off the rails.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But, there are no alarm bells going off.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 9 May 2026
  • Watch the fire alarm go off in the video at the top of this post.
    — EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That’s when the lightbulb went off.
    — Matthew Huff, IndieWire, 17 June 2026
  • Then, in the morning, my phone went off.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The king goes off to war, and the new queen gives birth to a son.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Avoid touching the sides or the buzzer will go off!
    — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Now my child has gone off to college, kind of thing.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Of course, the gang wouldn’t just let Marie go off alone.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The bowls should look like Lush bath bombs went off in them.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chekhov’s guns that hung on the wall but never went off.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Berger’s 7-iron went off the back of the green.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026

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