go off

Example Sentences

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“I would go out to L.A. in my early 20s, just go off on my own and have a little adventure day,” says McClung.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

And then they’d go off and eat sushi, and then you have to come up with a whole entire script and write it overnight.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“Our family is going to go off on a new adventure, which means we are selling our Hamptons home,” she wrote in the accompanying caption.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

England's bomb squad came on, but didn't really go off.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

S'pose you could make that fuse infinitely long, so that the dynamite'd never go off?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell