shoot off

Example Sentences

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"Otherwise he was going to shoot off and I'd be left with an open door, and couldn't shut it."

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, students are applying “to hundreds and hundreds of jobs. They just shoot off application after application,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Davis was forced to shoot off of one knee from 19 feet away to end another.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

"I hope he doesn't know about the existence of Comstock, because I just don't want him to shoot off his mouth," the lawyer added of Trump.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2024

Finally the police got so many complaints from his neighbors that they told him he couldn’t shoot off any more rockets in that neighborhood.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins