How To Use firing off In A Sentence
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- The book is previewed in the current issue of The Economist (subscription required), in an article that's sure to get some of the sisters firing off letters to the editor.
- A follow-up commercial had a gray-bunned schoolmarm firing off a letter about the grammatical goof, only to be challenged with the jingle, ‘Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?’
- The enemy are firing off their big guns.
- We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
- Predictably, North Korea has responded to the UN resolution by firing off another round of bellicose threats. Searches of its vessels will provoke military retaliation, the regime says.
- Jasper spun, firing off several shots from his ray gun at Bobby before he hit the taut oxhide and was hurled back up into the air, wheeling his legs in kicks and punches to knock out the gangsters who grabbed at his knees. Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
- When required to be used, the canister is thrown amongst the enemy, and exploded at will by firing off the pistol. Three Months in the Soudan
- After firing off a couple of jokes that bomb disastrously, he will ask for a volunteer from the audience.
- Between reception and inception is this automaton intelligence, analysing the data as it comes in, processing it, and firing off response actions. Archive 2007-02-01
