| 单词 | go off |
| 例句 | They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the tiredness suddenly catching up with us—after all, we’d been travelling since before dawn—but I wasn’t the only one who went off into a bit of a dream in there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was nowhere near the Wexler apartment the day the third bomb went off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember a whole lot from when she first got sick, but I do remember that she’d always go off to her room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then he went off to check on dinner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Dusk was falling, and ahead of me was another barren, dusty road going off to the right. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So many alarms go off in my head. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Who’s to take care of Poppy while you go off delivering messages? You must move in here with me. I have an empty bedroom, after all, and quite a nice one. Come and look.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She hoped that Polly wouldn’t go off on her own, but she just knew she had to go south. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My alarm clock, which was no larger than the palm of my hand, sat under my pillow so when the alarm went off, it would be loud enough for me, and only me, to hear. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Like me, he heard the radio stations go off one by one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Pretty soon Tesia and Kendall also went off making small talk with people they had met around campus. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Like, seriously went off on me. Even after I told her what you did.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He smiled, and waved his hand, and went off down the corridor alone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He was studying that big Catholic-looking cross around the neck, and probably thinking over all we’d heard about Brother Fowles going off the deep end, plus every curse word ever uttered by the parrot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was taking off my jacket when the alarm went off. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z ‘It went off better than I expected. I don’t often get asked for a second hearing. What did you think of it?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And after a while George went off into the alley by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Why would she go off to a northern private school on a wagon? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When he went off to first grade, he left her behind on her front steps, clutching a doll. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And when it got to be past ten, and all the stores started opening and the parking lot started filling up with cars, Mong finally went off to find a pay phone. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z No one tells her to go off trailing through the jungle all alone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His own clothes were wet, but he had left the sweater and anorak behind him when he went off exploring into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes Ray forgets to stay with his humans and goes off on unexpected adventures, leading to much worry. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He slaps James on the back hard enough to hurt, then he and Abram go off to their card game with the other common men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Dolorous Edd went off muttering of worms and spiders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She tells Dad she’ll see him at the house, then goes off to her car. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z And Mama knew that wasn't fair girls inside and boys going off to steal peaches! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z At around ten o’clock, the sirens started to go off. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama would have a fit if I tried to go off somewhere. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was no father in this family—he had gone off to a town and had never come back—and so the mother lived with her five sons and with her own mother and father. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He had a sudden desire to turn and go off in the other direction, to take his chance. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He’d never ask one girl to marry him and the next day go off and marry another girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The announcements go off, and Mrs. Fisher starts talking about our language arts project, but I don’t stop reading. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Still and all you went off and left me all day and all night.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The emergency alarm went off, and I remember saying to myself, “That’s the end of us.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But after Grandpa went off to Jefferson in the buggy with Miss Love, it dawned on me that now Granny’s passing wasn’t so plain after all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The guns had just gone off on the ships to mark the evening when Corporal Craigie appeared and ordered us form into rank. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z So they watched Mr. Chris go off in the bright chariot, out along the lane and down the road and over the hill, where he disappeared as if he had fallen off the earth. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a copy of the hospital records he’d found after Sairy, Dallas, Tiller, and Florida had gone off on their trips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I go off to chop some wood, then come back and wait with John. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z So Voldemort went off to Borgin and Burkes, and all the staff who had admired him said what a waste it was, a brilliant young wizard like that, working in a shop. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all suiface hut underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So, only one man would stay on guard when the others went off to see the show. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But the worst was the look on her mothers face when Nya's father and older brother, Dep, went off to hunt. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My head went off to the side as I watched him recede and he looked back one last time before disappearing round the comer. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Fred made all of us, even Ms. G, climb out the window so the alarms wouldn’t go off. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I haven’t told them how much the Capitol’s defenses mirror the weapons in the arena, but my going off to war is awful enough on its own. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “That is all. Gebu turned without another word and went off down the street, putting his feet down like chunks of stone. In a moment Wenamon left too.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I don’t want to go off on a little girl, so I start with a simple question. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Noah yells into the empty sound, like fireworks going off. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “He’s gone off his rocker!” shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The mums went off for coffee, just as we'd planned, and Salim and the two Sparks cousins joined the ticket queue. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They pick it out of the stinking tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After the show went off, I got real quiet. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Their alarms go off three hours later for their flights home. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll leave your father to deal with your hoodlum friends this year,” she said, and went off shopping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z When the lunch break came, Arlin took her lunch sack from a pocket in her tool belt and went off to meet some friends a few tunnels away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Kiyo was the only son still in camp, and he had gone off to help someone else load furniture. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The only character I recognized was Hamlet, who went off on Mr. Price in Shakespearean talk. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z To be perfectly honest, I felt it last semester when he went off to become the GSA president and I fell into the Group of Friends. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Mom has to guess the names of six categories before it goes off. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I did not feel in my holiday mood to-day, and I had no wish to go off with Jasper to the Happy Valley and come to the cove and throw stones in the water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Dicey wouldn’t ever go off and leave us. You wouldn’t, would you, Dicey?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Curly went off to his trailer while Officer Delinko resumed patrolling the grounds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Both my parents go off to work before six, which is when I get up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The alarm clocks went off in our house at 7:00 a.m., and after we all silently made a pact not to wake quite yet, the alarms beeped again at 7:05 a.m. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I'd been asleep for just about thirty minutes when my alarm clock went off at 6:32. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Menelaus trusting completely to it left Paris in his home and went off to Crete. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been outraged when he went off- to war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They go off and wave once or twice. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’d called his sister after the first bomb went off, she hadn’t answered. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They go off together, leaving us, the two lovebirds sitting on the same side of the table, staring at all the happy couples in the room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Finally, Edwin stood, as if some invisible timer had gone off in his head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Believe me, Sonia and I both jumped like one of the paper bombs had gone off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know I done wrong to go off when you wasn’t here. I’ll just collect my things and be gone, ey?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then he said: 'A pity, but we must let the gentleman go off to bed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Hugh bought me great gifts the summer I stayed home and he went off to France. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Only woke up long enough to eat some cold supper, and right after went off to bed.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hit jest don’t suit me to go off now. Anyhow, what’s the hurry?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know how a man in his right mind can go off and leave a wife and family to starve and shiver in a Limerick winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s not like Matthias to go off like that. I’ve searched everywhere in my spare moments, but he’s not in the Abbey.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It had once been a private home, but its owner went off to train as a minister, and when he came back he held services in his living room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z How could he leave me in that raunchy bar and go off with his woman? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were up early. Where did you go off to?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The cab skids away, and I hold my bag close and shut my eyes and say a frantic prayer that it all goes off okay. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Nobody’s meant to go off alone, away from her family. Families stay together. This bee needs her family too.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The instant they passed the line of poles, sirens went off. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, when the cricket was finished, Mario said, “Goodbye,” and told him not to worry, and went off to the grocery store to see about his job. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was just starting to come up, so when it went off, it wasn’t really that cool, but it did make a great bang. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Simpson waved at the chopper and the lights went off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of us would go off to fetch and filter water while the other prepared a sludge of steamy noodles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They went off round the corner of the house, still whistling the song. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I waited until after my brother came down and ate the rest of the pancakes and then went off somewhere, probably with whoever he could find who had a police record. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He goes off to pour himself some chocolate milk too. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z And everytime I paused to rest, the outrage revived and I went off again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I have a better system; I have an alarm clock I set; I keep it right on the calendar, and when it goes off I check the day. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She was set to run in a competition, and then a gun went off to mark the start of the race. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The airports stayed closed and occasionally the electricity would sputter and go off. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “You become pregnant,” Rick continued, “by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion and—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The gun goes off, and I hear a scream. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My mom had gone off to work as soon as she woke up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I was afraid he was about to go off into another one of his coughing fits. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He cut nine hairs out of the mole of her head for luck and went off happy. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I went off into a daydream about Zach pulling the truck over because he couldn’t see to drive for the snow and us having a snowball fight, blasting each other with soft white snow cotton. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuela doesn’t seem to mind, though, and goes off to take a nap. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z High up among the bulging clouds thunder went off like a gun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Bill Gorton arrived, put up a couple of days at the flat and went off to Vienna. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I was always worried that Tateh’s gun would go off and accidentally kill him while he was cleaning it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When he went off to work on his resume, I decided to stay out of the plants and the sunny places for the rest of today while I get used to things around here. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They hated to see Lily go, but they were happy she was going off to college—though they’d never heard of Spelman, Lily added with a rueful smile on her face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Eventually, my dad returned with his wallet, and the divorce went off without any more hitches. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z While Pa goes off to work and we children to school every morning, Ma does not have too much to do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as he goes off grimly, all we can say is: “You’re mad,” and let him go. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Tariq flashed them little white teeth at me, then go off on her bidding. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Flashbulbs went off everywhere and there was a riot of microphones and camcorders in our faces. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before gunshots went off in the air from miles away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Just as strange is the second man’s claim not to have heard the sound of his gun going off. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z So when my alarm goes off Tuesday morning, by faith I don’t get up, believing that Momma won’t make me go to school. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “No,” she said, “he went off to a museum earlier.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Miss Spink went off the stage, and the noise of trumpets squealed as the gramophone needle dug its way across the record, and was pulled off. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Before the saboteurs were to go off on their mission, Colonel Erwin von Lahousen, the chief of intelligence, hosted a dinner in the elegant private dining room of the Zoo Restaurant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She claimed that he had only been pretending about his religious feelings—as was shown by his immediately going off with Elaine when he had the dunce. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z S'pose if you don't get the word out before this fuse is burnt away, a couple of seconds, say, the dynamite goes off? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "That was a fine girl you had at the dance, and then went off with that Brett one." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They’d both asked to start their training, and went off with cheerful smiles, but after that, for our lot anyway, the atmosphere at the Cottages changed forever. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “My cake’s ready!” she announced, as though a buzzer had gone off in the kitchen. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Walowick’s piece went off and ricocheted around the inside of the chopper and got one of the crew. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the rattling sounds of the rifles go off and bullets pierce through their bodies, silencing their screams. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a sireen went off sounding like it was in the backseat of the car. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The gun’s gone off for Fiona’s race, so I pick up the pace even more. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The door slammed, the bolt scraped, and the hard overlight went off. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I still appeared to be myself from the outside, I’m sure, just as he still looked like the same boy who’d gone off to war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And I wondered if it wouldn’t be a whole lot better going off to find yourself in a brand-new Ford Mustang convertible with a 390 big-block engine. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Then I left him pottering about in the library and went off to plead my case before Mother, to no avail. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He waited a moment, and then he touched his cap and went off trundling his barrow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I hated being left by myself with him while they went off to pick cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To ensure that the dognapping went off without a hitch, Big Tony would take his own security team. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z One road seemed to go off toward the west, the other road continued north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z And my father explained: It was only because he said “Cheese,” and my mother was struggling to keep her eyes open until the flash went off, ten seconds later. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When he goes off, I look over at our table. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the family went off to visit Uncle Herm, so we had the place to ourselves. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “We need to get the lay of the land before we let you go off by yourself,” her dad said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z On September 20th two covered carts went off laden to Buckland, conveying the furniture and goods that Frodo had not sold to his new home, by way of the Brandywine Bridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When he shuts the door, it goes off. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He frowned, wrote something down, and then they went off to look at the other displays. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some went off to write letters or party or sleep; the others trooped down to the base perimeter, where, for the next eleven hours, they would pull night guard duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It would mean going off the path, which meant risking traps, not to mention serious trouble. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z On the day my father died, the sirens went off during my school lunch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Whatever. They wouldn’t let lions eat you. Don’t think you won’t miss them when you’ve gone off to bigger and better things. Part of you will miss this life.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z When he hit the ground his gun went off and a shot came through the window of the restaurant. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the row begins; one of them gets his breath and goes off like an alarmclock. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee had gone off to see Ewell, to explain the attack to him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some guys from another squad came over to find out what the shooting was about, and Walowick told them a guy was working on his rifle and it went off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The shot went off from his gun with a combustion of light and little sound. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On Third Avenue they would all go off to the market together first thing in the morning, talking and pushing and stopping to lecture to children in gutters and streets. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Arcadio ordered them to give him a weapon and twenty cartridges, and he left him with five men to defend headquarters while he went off with his staff to head up the resistance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Professor Ekwenugo was on his way to lay land mines with the Science Group when they went over some potholes and the mines went off.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And she stood there like a puppet strung up by a puppet master who had gone off to some other hobby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When my alarm goes off in the morning, I awake to find Mango sitting on the window ledge, no doubt planning his next attack. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Her own curiosity is the one thing that has kept her from going off the rails. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Frankie mentally ran through the path he’d taken to get here and the stops he’d made along the way and Tad, who had said his time was up just before the first bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She giggles again, then blushes like a geyser went off inside her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Somehow I always pictured the baker quietly going off and frying them up for himself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One day Uri went off by himself and came back with a sack of coal. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It's not really like me to go off, but I couldn't stop. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I was also stalling because I didn’t want to go off again alone with Lindsey, because that would just mean it was time to say good-bye. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And Mother Fletcher went off into telling stories to Meaghan about how long she had known Santa Claus and how she used to have to lend him her handkerchief because his nose was always running. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Al and Vernesha watch us go, and I wonder what he thinks of me, going off to play. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “But the general consensus was that we weren’t going to get anything worth using if we locked her in a bunker somewhere every time a gun went off.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Immediately after their cold and comfortless breakfast Strider went off alone, telling the others to remain under the shelter of the cliff, until he came back. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. My alarm went off an hour late, and everything’s been going wrong since. I got halfway to school and my car broke down.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z As there was now no other possible course for them to take, they climbed down the bank, and turning left went off as fast as they could. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ma looked at Pa like Mr. Clemson had spoken of going off to war. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The Trunchbull let out a yell and leapt off her chair as though a firecracker had gone off underneath her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z They ran offstage together the moment the spotlights went off. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And then, the alarms went off and the door at the far end of the room swung open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His mum’s mobile had gone off once, not waking her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “It seems Dale has gone off and gotten himself enlisted—in the Marines.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly a light swirled and a buzzer went off. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Jay went off to play with Tony for a bit before dinner; I hesitated only for a moment before heading down to the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Finally an alarm bell went off in my brain and I threw up both arms, shouting, “Don’t shoot! We give up!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The year I was packed off to private school, Chapter Eleven went off to college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Because of tidal conditions, the race would not go off until after 8:00 p.m., just after sundown. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He tried to say something, but then cradled his rifle and went off by himself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stay here until we come back for you.The men must clean the village of its dead bodies,” he says before he goes off to the village that afternoon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the timer on my phone finally went off, Joe hopped up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The light goes off and the firing stops. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He wondered if he could make it turn black and go off to somebody else. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My roommates didn’t fall asleep until 4:00 A.M. so when the alarm went off at 6:30,1 thought I was going to die. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Most everyone should have been out of the building when the first bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z One of the adults went off to filter water and fell in the creek. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Furnaces don’t go on until December the first. Then they go off March the first. I don’t make the rules.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I recognized that Mom and Dad were about to go off onto one of their standard quarrels and eased back into the darkness of the yard and stood with the dogs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The first bomb was supposed to go off later. Everyone should have been out of the building by then. It was a mistake. It had to be a mistake.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He knew he wouldn’t sleep well anyway, since he’d be worried the alarm wouldn’t go off. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “You were so aloof,” he said, “always wandering into the garden with Jasper, going off on your own. You never came to me like this.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “This is someone we still know nothing about, and I am not going to see another bomb go off just because I want you to catch him for us.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was like fireworks went off inside Madison Square Garden. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “If it’s loaded,” he explained sorrowfully, shoving the gun carefully back into its holster, “it can go off. Hang it back on the wall where it belongs, Mr. Cordova. Please, huh? Nobody wants violence.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo jumped back in fright and quickly grabbed Tock to make sure that his alarm didn’t go off—for he knew how much witches hate loud noises. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I kept having flashes of scenes go off in my mind. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But why didn’t it go off when Will opened it? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “And if we go off in search of loops, and you depend on me to save you from monsters and instead I get you all killed, is that destiny, too?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes it went off too soon, thus featuring Dad’s blurred but ample stern as he climbed into the car. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s hard to run one hundred and thirty-nine runners into the ground, especially when the gun goes off and the thunder of all those feet takes over from the thunder in your heart. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But she had gone off laughing and sure. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Once she did, and saw Crab standing there with the squirrels, she really went off. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z "It went off the air," Mr. Das explained. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z After a while she went off, and came back presently with a gift: a handful of mussels she had gathered on the rocks. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When the timer went off, we took the macaroni and cheese out of the oven. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She was feeling grumpy, I could tell, because some days she’d let me watch for way longer than fifteen minutes, pretending she didn’t notice that the timer in the kitchen had gone off. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z "At the Crillon. Harvey was just a little daunted. Hadn't eaten for three days. Doesn't eat any more. Just goes off like a cat. Pretty sad." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Now, she and Doc had to get up earlier and cook, then clean up the kitchen before going off to work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They go off and frequently turn and look back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in his interest that everything go off without a hitch. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z It was a good thing two of Kainene’s stewards had gone off to join the army and only Ikejide was left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I shall stick to my plan: take the archaeologists to their spot and go off by myself for a few days to look for the anomaly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I give him another dose of fever medicine before he goes off his head completely. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Joel Salatin had gone off to the barn with his grown son, Daniel. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It seems like only minutes later when my alarm clock goes off for school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet another time, I went off to Atlanta and interviewed for Playboy Dr. Martin Luther King. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m fine. Just tired. A bunch of people got arrested, though. They set a car on fire and broke some windows. The police went off.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “If it’s been rolling around in his trunk for a week now and hasn’t gone off yet, surely it’s okay to...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah put the Kentucky Wonders over the fire and, struck by a sudden sleepiness, she went off to lie down in the front room. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even when the power went off, Monique sat in front of the TV. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they went off two at a time. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z That sense of well-being was shattered the instant the bomb went off that Sunday morning in September 1963—the day I grew up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Not quite rotten. Just gone off, so you wouldn’t yet notice, but eat it and get sick.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And had Dumbledore truly left her to her fate while he went off to Hogwarts, to prove himself brilliant and talented? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At the same time, an earsplitting alarm goes off, echoing all across the world. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That Sunday after the maids went off to early mass, my mother inspected their quarters while my father kept watch by a window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Though I have nowhere to go, each morning I hurriedly dress myself so I can catch a glimpse of Pa before he goes off to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Colonel Smith didn’t say he was going off on him forever.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the distance, the roof alarm goes off as Will opens the door to get back inside, distant but blaring as it echoes down the stairwell, reverberating in the hallway. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The old people ate and then went off to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If a bomb really did go off in my aunt's trailer, I'd be safe down here, under all these junk cars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We had a good time while he was in Paris, and then he went off to Vienna. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was meant to be her brother’s, when he went off on his quest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Normally when Dad goes off on a rant, Mom just lets him talk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “He went off somewhere before I got up. He’s still mad at me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z When Miss Annie went off down the hill again, the last thing she said was, “I’m going to find out if anybody knows how those Indians knew!” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She’d gone off without a backward glance when Maria was only five. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This was something the baboons liked to do, going off together to raid the fields in the night, when the people were sleeping in their houses. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Liyana nodded at her and went off to find her mother, who was in the bedroom digging through a box. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s not that I want to pry, but maybe Alice is not going off to find her own home. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Voices drift over from the neighboring yard, punctuated every now and then by the report of firecrackers going off in different parts of the city in honor of Independence Day. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Candice had just reached the part where a second bomb went off when the phone rang. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At first, it scared me, but now I realize that half the time, when the alarms go off, it’s the machines that are malfunctioning, not the people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The deweys had escaped, Sula was either in her room or gone off somewhere. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My eyes widen, and I drop to my belly on the ground as the shots go off. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Atlas did so, and Hercules picked up the apples and went off. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, where might you have gone off to?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His alarm goes off, playing a song I really like. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z An explosion goes off, perilously close to a cluster of dry-looking leaves and branches. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing that made him go off course.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the room, a gun goes off, someone screams, and everyone dives under the tables or crouches next to the benches. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “He shouldn’t go off in weather like this. You never know. Do you suppose he was at Chris’s when I came by and I didn’t see him?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, the man on the last radio station had said he was going to have to go off; there wasn’t any more power. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The Jeep had gone off the cliff on a bad turn. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In seven weeks’ time Lily would be going off to her college in Georgia and I'd be left alone in this house with no one to talk to but myself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z How quickly the bloom had gone off the whole idea of scientific correspondence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He bought me an extra hour after the crowds cleared out so that I could go off on my own, somewhere, with Ocean. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “That day my mother died, you said when I picked up the gun, it went off.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many men were going off to the war against the wishes of women, a lot of them leaving the camp each day, droves of young men going. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They heard the Howler go off in the entrance hall — Neville’s grandmother’s voice, magically magnified to a hundred times its usual volume, shrieking about how he had brought shame on the whole family. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We took everything home, divvied it up, and went off to pack—Katz to the bedroom where all his other stuff was, I to my basement HQ. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He kept them open until the lights in the windows of the other houses went off one by one, and the world went dark except for a single streetlight at the end of the block. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Occasionally, when the gambling instinct got the better of him, he’d try to turn around and administer one swift disciplinary stroke, and then turn back again in time to smile before the camera went off. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Five years of planning, millions of dollars spent developing the latest spy gear, and months of careful training went into making sure that the picnic went off without a hitch. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, I headed over to the venue early while my mom and Brandilyn went off to sightsee. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The campesino goes off with his medicine, a couple of cigars, a few mints for the godchildren. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, more and more students were going off to be carers, and among our old Hailsham crowd, there was a growing feeling this was the natural course to follow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alaska and I were smoking down by the lake. We usually go off campus, but we forgot. We’re sorry. It won’t happen again.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “I went through it, and the alarm didn’t go off.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then Dad went off into his favorite subject: ventilating air through the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When they climbed aboard there were only a handful of people, most of them clearly heading home from a night of carousing as opposed to going off to work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He went off into a biographical sketch while people in line shuffled impatiently. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were definitely cannons going off in my brain, just like Mr. Winston had been talking about. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “Why can’t I take my feather tick? It took me most of my life to get the feathers to make that tick and I’m not going off anywhere without it.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Goat agreed to Leopard’s request, and she went off to the other side of the river to look for a fine new dress for her friend Leopard. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Reminded me of a little boy going off by himself for the first time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘Pitcairn went off last night. Second in command to Colonel Smith.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonny has to talk to one of his teachers before class, so he goes off toward the visual arts wing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As Jo waved her hands and gave a sigh of rapture, the family went off into a gale of merriment, and Mr. Laurence laughed till they thought he’d have an apoplectic fit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Cook’s children had grown up in the house but had left and gone off to other places a couple of years ago, California and Boston and the like. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It worked on a timer: When a code was entered the electricity went off for a few seconds, long enough for an attendant to get inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then she went off to join her siblings from the Athena cabin—-a dozen boys and girls with blond hair and gray eyes like hers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But my phone goes off, chirping away over and over, and the magic of the moment floats away like a balloon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “I rang the British Council in Enugu and I can’t believe our people there are still going off to play water polo and have cocktails at the Hotel Presidential! There’s a bloody war going on.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We go off now to find what ship, and whither bound; when we have discover that, we come back and tell you all. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The gun went off, its ball blasting uselessly into the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Most of the other kids would go off to play competitions against nearby schools, but there’d be a bunch of us left behind—the injured, the uncommitted, the uncoordinated, the ones who couldn’t catch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She made a few jokes, and I laughed harder than I should have, and she went off to the next guy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At once the men who were gathered round him broke up into small groups, and went off this way and that, vanishing quickly into the shadows of the rocks and trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z One of the Klansmen ordered, “Tie him off. Don’t let his body slip down. Leave him till we are sure he’s gone off to his maker, whoever that is.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind going off to meet our father who art in heaven as soon as I can.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Many of the men I had known went off to work on radar and other aspects of military research,” he later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The flashes of nakedness were like shouts going off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I’m going off to Yale and you’re heading to Princeton—maybe it’s better this way.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I grabbed it, and we did a grown man shake before going off to class. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The wood paneling, the cloth-covered stool in one comer, the little bell that went off every time we passed another floor. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Zach’s next scene does not go off without a hitch, and what occurs will repeat itself in each successive performance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He laughs as if he actually finds this funny and goes off down the hall, shaking his rear at us. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z They took Lieutenant Carroll, and the rest of us went off to one side and sat outside a building. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, it’s my idea that in all these interludes, whenever Dave became a psychiatric case, he went off into a moronic maze, spending his time twiddling his fingers.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When the timer went off, I stuck toothpicks into a couple of the cupcakes to make sure they were done. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “He’s not exactly the type who goes off doing something he shouldn’t be doing, just like he’s not the type to miss an appointment. But you never know. People are an enigma.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Immediately, a warning bell goes off in my head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But instead of plugging your ears with your fingers and shutting your eyes and cringing, as you used to do whenever firecrackers went off, you handed me your bag of beads and picked up Kutti. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z At that moment, it was as if a switch went off in Mrs. Winterbottom’s brain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A car alarm goes off in the distance. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “Keep your voice down, Neville. The password’s ‘Pig snout’ but it won’t help you now, the Fat Lady’s gone off somewhere.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “I could scarcely see three yards in front of me where I was. And then the things went off out of the blue.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She sometimes flew in to nibble his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Let’s let the children go off by themselves,” suggested Mr. Arable. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I had the sinking sensation that sooner or later a bomb would go off that I wouldn’t live to talk about. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hannah went off to the kitchen, her old man’s slippers plopping down the stairs and over the hardwood floors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said, “there’s no reason we’ve got to go round together the whole time. If little Miss here doesn’t want to join us, she doesn’t have to. Let her go off by herself.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The gun goes off and pain races through my body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It felt like everybody was holding their breath, waiting for a bomb to go off. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Goblin flung up his beautiful head and went off on a dead run. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if she’s gone off somewhere else, leaving me behind; or forgotten I am there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mama, la bendicidn,” I say, the way I used to as a child before going off to school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was going off his rocker or something. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot Pie went off and let her alone and Arya curled up on her pallet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The light in the ad box was dead, and the sun-faded poster was for a zombie show that had gone off the air three years before. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Right in the middle of the dissection, Justin’s stopwatch went off and he had to put down the scalpel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With the 101st in town, we didn’t hear as many sirens going off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day I went off to ballet class wearing the pink cap-sleeved leotard with the low neckline. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Some crashed into its side, sounding like firecrackers going off. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly terrified the revolver would go off, he lowered it slowly, keeping his finger on the hammer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Then all the TV's and radios went off. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother went off to get me a sticking plaster. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The boat went off to the ship filled with otter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “When she found out you were gone, she just about went off her chump. Thought you’d been abducted by wights or some barmi- ness. Sorry, Em. I had to tell her.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then he waved his great hands to all the company and went off into the trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The tone got breathy, and here and there, she went off pitch. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z ‘Sometimes. I’d have gone off fast enough when that sheet let loose.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still the loveliest summer weather, and there had been chicken for dinner, so that Merlyn had gone off to the edge of their shooting-ground and sat down under a tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We got a hastily scheduled hearing in the trial court in Dothan, where I tried to present evidence that the bomb Herbert had constructed was designed to go off at a certain time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I sensed a wrongness around me, like an alarm clock that had gone off without being set. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I go off the map, I leave suburbs and commercial strips far behind, I enter the open fields, which make for a nice change, drivingwise—but to live in? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A siren went off in my head, but I couldn’t feel my feet or move. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the afternoon the boys would go off fishing while we girls went down to a stream to play our favorite game: Wedding. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They thought he was out here for Dimple, for experience before he went off to MIT. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Twenty seconds . . . ten seconds . . . five . . . and the buzzer went off. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The power going off for two days because we hadn’t paid the bill. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The kitchen light went off and the bathroom light came on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell him I said this, but he’s a little jealous of you. He goes off for the summer, and I have this great adventure without him.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "The first bomb went off in your folks' coffee shop, right? Your mother and father work you pretty hard, don't they?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z After a while Widget goes off in search of something else to eat and Poppet waits by the gates alone, occasionally glancing over her shoulder to check the time on the clock behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The dinner service went off without a hitch, much to Mama’s delight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Er — okay,” said Ron, and he and Hermione went off to find a table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On a dreadful Saturday in August, she stopped in the bedroom to speak to them before she went off to work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But that letter was special in another way: because of it; a lightbulb went off in my mom’s head. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I’m not sure when it sank in that May had gone off to some un-reachable place inside herself. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There is always an alarm going off somewhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Another version of the incident will be floated years later: a group of children were taunting him, a gun had gone off accidentally. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I’m on the ground when Reggie calls halftime and everyone goes off for a beer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Finally, he sinks down beside me and runs his hands through his hair, making it go off in all directions. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There were times when I thought I’d gone off the psychic edge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lisbeth and Little Arliss had gone off to the creek below the spring to play with the pup and to fish for catfish. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why the heck would a man leave Earth with everything here to go off and sit on some rock in space all by himself?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z And as for my lunch box going off to college with me someday—well, to tell you the truth, I didn’t see anything so bad about that. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Life for Gerald and Angel continued to be rough even after Jordan went off to jail. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she thought the heat might make the gun go off by itself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ged asked him no more he quietly bade the young man good night, and went off up the narrow stepped street above the quays. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When the last one went off and stayed off, it came to me, finally, that nobody, no car, was ever going to come. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She is so far ahead that when the shots go off, I only see her flashlight fall, not her body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Yes. But the real point of the story—” From her breathing it was evident that she was going off to sleep again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I had gone only three paces when the musket went off with a terrific roar. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s so funny? I was nearly caught by Mr. Foster. And then gunshots went off from who knows where. I could have been killed in there!” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z God help Miss Love Simpson if she really had gone off and married Grandpa against her will—against Aunt Loma’s will, I mean. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The lights in all residential buildings have gone off, just as Metias had said they would, and nothing but oil lamps light the apartment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, people do go off alone,” she muttered to herself as she kicked through the grass, carrying her bag of honey, which was now beginning to ooze. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Peeta goes off to retrieve his notebook on the remaining living victors, and we gather in the compartment with the television to see who our competition will be in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If you were unlucky enough to be in the same sector when it went off, you were a goner, regardless of how powerful or well protected you were. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z How can children gather for a game of cricket if a bomb could go off under their feet? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Was that why he had gone off after the inquest so hurriedly? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Take the candle and check the stairwell. Maybe Bri got home last night after the electricity went off and spent the night in the stairwell.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She put up with me going off on adventures, but now I was asking her blessing to do something that would probably get me killed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They had got into the habit of going off to this unfashionable spot every day to cheer themselves with a little conversation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he got up off his knees at the window sill, grieving because he could not fly, and went off to school, his velvet suit separated him from the other children. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I could. I could go off in the hills there. Some place I’d find a cave.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We went off and played a game of HORSE. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Before I went off for my first bout, Akhi reminded me to be confident and remember the game plan, and that’s exactly what I did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When x goes to zero, 1/x gets bigger and bigger and bigger and finally just blows up and goes off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Having Shiloh a secret is like a bomb waiting to go off. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Another phone was thrust in front of his face, and the flash went off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “He took Raventree and accepted Lord Blackwood’s surrender,” said her uncle, “but on his way back to Riverrun he left his tail and went off with a woman.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A brief flare of happiness went off inside her and hung, raining sparks, until Lefty disappeared around the front of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “No. She knows King will go off when he sees DeVante’s gone,” I say. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Now Kira had gone off to a movie with Holly’s father, and the babysitter was downstairs asleep on the couch. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I’ve gotten used to it, walking around as if I have a time bomb glued to my back, except the bomb maker forgot to tell me when the thing is supposed to go off. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “You’d better hurry. You only have a few minutes before the bomb goes off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The song stops as my ring tone goes off. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z When Desdemona went off to Temple No. 1 in the morning, Lefty was asleep, having kept the speakeasy open all night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I went off to the spring after a bucket of fresh water and wondered when Papa would come back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He would be graduating this year, and he finally wanted to give breakdancing a shot before he went off to college and everything changed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was so good I watched it twice, then went off to find Bill so he could see it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The electricity went off all the time, at random hours throughout the day and night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Grandma was like a child whose parents have gone off and left her without making plain where they have gone or when they could be expected to return. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the moon rose I left the cave and went off through the valley and over the three hills to my home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You and I are going off the grid.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Soon it is time for Kim to go off on his own path. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At home she just ate supper and slept and then ate breakfast and went off to the store again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The alarm doesn’t go off when that happens,” Chuck answered, simply. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She had been by herself in the deserted village—and when Aunt Chipo locked her into a hut for being bad—and when she went off to cook private meals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama had dressed and gone off with Aunt Sissy to see a matinee from a ten-cent gallery seat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke up because my alarm went off at six, and then I snuck into the kitchen and ate a granola bar and some orange juice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was agreed that Hyena would take on this task the first day, and he was duly left there, while all the others went off in search of food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The gun goes off and the girls shoot forward, finding their stride, leaping over the first hurdle, regaining their stride, leaping over the second hurdle. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z When you build your rocket and it goes off way high in the air, people may say let’s give Sonny glory for it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We went off to work as usual, our bodies frozen. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the threat of rain, the ceremony had gone off perfectly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Joey went off to O-Hall, and I ran on frozen bare legs for the boys’ dorm, where I used to live. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Later, when Ted and his father went off to play volleyball with the others, his mother took my hand, and we started walking along the grass, away from the crowd. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Victoria came out of the bathroom, headed toward me, and then, seeing who I was talking to, made an abrupt right turn and went off to find us a table. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Instead, their watches went off at once, a shrill beep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They went off together and left me sitting there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “No one goes off by themselves. Got it, girls?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z A Yes! firework went off inside Genie’s head. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z "Splendid. Wish he wouldn't keep going off like a cat, though. Makes me nervous." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then Petey went off his feed again for no good reason. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z This time I went off toward the west, along the cliff, and then doubled back through the brush, being careful to leave no tracks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The gun doesn’t go off, we all good. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Jacob went off on his own, looking for I don’t know what. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A few days later, Mom and Dad went off to the blackjack table and then almost immediately came looking for us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So I gave a shrug and went off with Ruth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing for the Post-Intelligencer that morning, though, he said he thought Cal would probably go off as the slight favorite among the bookmakers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Quick as a wink, the man flicked the main switch so that all the lights went off and everyone was standing in darkness. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z "It’s like a trillion hydrogen bombs going off at once," says Evans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Where are all your friends, man? They go off and leave you all alone?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Some parts are very good indeed; other parts, you’ve gone off. For instance,” she turned a page, “here Fate says: ‘And Youth, what is thy ambition?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the alarm for midnight; when it went off, I reset it for two o’clock, then for four o’clock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A letter went off saying that I found Cambridge intellectually very exciting and so did not plan to be in the States by June. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Brother Tom went off to find the hospital, to see how the boys were, to see how Buster Kilrain was getting along. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the timer went off, and I took the cupcakes out of the oven. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They went off in a troop, preceded by a band of musicians and shooting off fireworks, and they left behind in the town an impression that the Buendía line had enough seed for many centuries. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her head went off to one side - she was the one who looked like a duck that’s forgotten how to quack - and I felt a teardrop fall onto the hand on her shoulder. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Simon’s gone off on a rant about the play, so I steal a piece of bacon from his plate when he’s distracted. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The gun went off, and I sprang out of the blocks. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “The radio just went off the atomic beam. Every other world station’s gone. They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years. Now the air’s completely silent. It’ll probably remain silent.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom would never go off without us—or her phone, to link to us—without a good reason. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A dull pop went off, followed quickly by another. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Troop by troop, and company by company, they wheeled and went off eastward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He had gone off to college with his football scholarship in July. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The next day, when Mr. Becker went off to the Mountaineer, I opened the display case and took out the four-band watch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The next morning I can’t believe it when my alarm goes off and I can still see the green glow around my arm. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He was tired of being the fixer, making certain the assignment went off on schedule in order to maintain Archie’s big shot reputation. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo was much too tired to talk and almost too tired for dinner, so, without a murmur, he went off to bed as soon as he could. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “No ideas where he might of went off to?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She was afraid to sit down because she might doze off and be unprepared when the siren went off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He liked the word beckon; he would have said, “Adventure beckons,” and would have gone off to prowl around the ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The gun goes off and Vanessa shoots from the blocks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z ‘I am not certain, so I will say no more. I may be able to tell you something when I come back. I am going off at once: so this is good-bye for the present.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe she’d miss me, after all, when she went off to Georgia. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z When the adults went off to the gift shop, I had her to myself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And when we went off the air, Wallace shouted, “Top notch. Cancel everything and schedule it immediately.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Another bomb tossed onto Dr. King’s front yard somehow failed to go off. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The human tracks went off toward the mountain where the man must have crawled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Mom went off in a Palestinian police car. She made me stay here to tell you. She is very very upset.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When the telephone went off, so did the electricity, and the furnace wouldn’t run without electricity. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t sleep. It’s overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid—in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don’t get back to her.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z With that advice, she went off to make sure the maids had cleaned the ground-floor bedrooms properly. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z And of course he’d smell so bad that I couldn’t stand him and have to go off and try to sleep somewhere else. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Sirens went off every day, screamed like hell, and people went down into cellars and listened to radios there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When we’re done, and she goes off in search of other books, I pick up the discarded ones and hunt through the pages until I find the words I’m looking for. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He abandoned the cart there and went off for another one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Jan nailed a pinewood board over the gap in the door and went off again with Miep to inform the police of the break-in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The others rallied to his cry and they went off howling like a pack of wild dogs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, call it coincidence, call it plot, the man's gun went off again in the distance, and I realized he was in the orange grove hunting. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When it was my turn to go off to college, Mother cried her eyes out when Daddy and I pulled away in the truck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We went off with our keys and agreed to meet in half an hour. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They go off to recover, thankfully leaving me in Cinna’s hands. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The timer on the microwave went off then, but Mom didn’t pull out our enchilada dinners. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z When Kingshaw had tried again to go off and fetch somebody, he had said, ‘Shut up,’ more violently, and then, ‘Don't be stupid,’ Kingshaw had followed him, unasked, into the House block. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When he came in at seven that night, the news was going off and me, Mama, Ty'ree, and the cops were all waiting. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z She began to feel sorry for Cousin Eunice, who had lived all of her life in this city, who had gone off to work every morning along the same gray city streets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Our high school, which had about twenty students at full strength, was down now to fifteen since two had graduated the previous spring and three had gone off to war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is good for the family to be separated,” Pa says quietly and goes off to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tremendous thing in those days for a young man to be going off to Africa to work. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time I had seen her in the old happy, careless way since before she went off with Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I may have to suffer through these lessons before I can go off and practice my arias, but I never get tired of being with him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When the timer went off for the pasta, I went for the colander, but Grandma stopped me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “But I’m not letting you two go off by yourselves. There’ll be more concerts. I’m on your scavenging team whether you like it or not.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She had four children and raised them to work hard, but the oldest went off to Darrington to set choker cables, and the second and third went off to war. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Jake and Emma’s mom was in charge of making sure big banquets in the Imperial Marquis’s convention and meeting facilities went off without a hitch. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Before going off to war, my father had promised his mother that he’d finally become literate in Greek. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I have gone off into that state, hours and hours, on account of Matthew’s strange and inexplicable conduct, and nobody has thanked me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Speechless as they went off to school next morning. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The first two times Frightful went off with the game he had flushed, he could do nothing but bark. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z If I miss a phone call, I go off to be sad by myself. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Like he’s waiting for a firecracker to go off. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z After the plates have been shoved in the trash and everyone goes off to class, Kat unzips her backpack. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Do you think there really are more bombs ready to go off?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The same dynamic benefited the members of that generation when they went off to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Crow could be the one. Bring hellfire down on all of us," Theo whispered to Chris, "but she wasn't in the building when the first two bombs went off." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When September came he would be going off to secondary school and, for the first time in his life, he wouldn’t be with Dudley. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The gate was tall and ominous and heavy, set strongly into a stone wall which went off through the trees. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The antelope and the lion burst out of their cages and went off together into the streets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z So after every dismount from a routine, whether it counted or not, I’d go off to the bathroom to blow my nose. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She looked out and there Needles was, sitting on the stoop next door, going off like nobody's business! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “KILLING TIME!” roared the dog—so furiously that his alarm went off. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z "I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The man says he’s going off duty now, he’ll take us to the police barracks where he has to report anyway, and they’ll see what can be done. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They accept my brother, Malachy, and he goes off to Dublin to be a soldier and play the trumpet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t even say anything but go off. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was all right for some of them to be expelled; in a pinch, they could go off to a boarding school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mirren is going off into her sunshine future, whereas I am going back to Dickinson Academy to another year of snow and suffocation. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When the freshman race went off promptly at 3:00 p.m., it looked as if it would be a close race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Or he could have gone off somewhere to look for an escort. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even their opening performance in Seattle went off without a hitch—probably because they had already rehearsed on a real stage. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he paid Frodo a brief visit, and after taking a good look at him he went off again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One evening, the men, who were joined by Jan Timman from Holland, the number three-ranked chess player in the world, went off to what Broodhaers described as a “raunchy” nightclub in downtown Brussels. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Scythe Curie went off to greet several of the old-guard scythes who held true to the founders’ ideals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “That could put out the remaining fires and screw up any other bombs so they won’t go off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z James went off to climb the rocks at the water’s edge. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish I was a boy so I could go off on my own!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mia soon settled into a schedule: she arrived in the morning at eight thirty, soon after everyone had gone off to work or school, and would be finished by ten. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It had suddenly gone off throughout the block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was Sunday I did not want to work; it was too rainy to fish or to take a walk as I sometimes did, and by then the radio stations had all gone off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z During the next year or two he had turned up fairly often, coming unexpectedly after dusk, and going off without warning before sunrise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She went off to the woods and I sat at the table and slowly paged through the Norvelt News. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Now, where you be going off to?” the man that had just been talking asked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But before he went off to college, Roosevelt would undergo another transformation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A few girls went off to be teachers or nurses for a while before they got married, and I considered them lucky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Diana was the last student anyone would have reported to the administration, and yet she was the time bomb that had been waiting to go off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Another bomb was ready to go off, and the bomber was one of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The heat from the compress, probably more than the traces of opium from the poppy seeds, helped and “the pain gradually went off.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One day Hezekiah asked off from work to go off with the ball team. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe’s opinion was corroborated. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Around ten-fifteen Mom turned off the stereo, gave me a hug, and went off to bed. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In the distance, fireworks began going off—rockets, scattering fiery balls in the sky. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She squinches up her face for a second, and then it’s like a lightbulb goes off over her head. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Chucha, I suggest you close the house and go off to your people.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I still feel bad about it, but I promised to strap his arm for him—in Room 14 half an hour before the night bell—and watched him go off grateful and reassured. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something rather sincere and pathetic about her going off to a shop in London and buying me these books because she knew I was fond of painting. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When my alarm goes off on the first morning of school, Boomer lets out a small groan and burrows deeper into the covers as I drag myself out of bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Anything other than diet and Grandma will go off about him not watching his sugar. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She went off to harvest the birdlime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that he would put the females on the block later on in the day, and went off to the inn to get his dinner. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And, executing a classic scurry, Furlough went off to tell his father, Lester Tilling, the terrible, unbelievable news of what he had just seen. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "Not in public. If I begin to feel daunted I'll go off by myself. I'm like a cat that way." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Might go off any minute now. Well, make yourself comfortable.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reason why I hated the end of the holidays was that I had to leave Rusty every morning when I went off to school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that Nanny got married and went off to her own house with her husband. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I know I’ve gone off the deep end now, but the longer I stand here looking at the house, the more desperate I am to go inside. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z ‘Snow’s all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed while it’s falling. I wish this lot would go off to Hobbiton! Folk might welcome it there.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s as if one of the firecrackers that have been going off all day long has suddenly fallen in the center of the group. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know nothing? Dynamite’s stable. It won’t go off unless there’s a charge of some sort. Besides, you tripped over it. If anyone was likely to kill us, it was you.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My alarm doesn't go off until 6:37. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But just like with the sex at Hailsham, there was an unspoken agreement to allow for a mysterious dimension where we went off and did all this reading. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a bell went off in my head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said that any progress is a good thing, but I still don’t see the purple spirals that I used to see when my alarm went off. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “I feel pretty confident I can tell when a monkey is getting sick. They get a little bit depressed, they go off their feed, and in a day or two they are dead.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Berger goes off either to fetch the beast in or to shoot it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Going for two or three days without eating was not unusual for us, even those of us who had gone off to boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After Dad’s gone off, Becky gets up before Ma, and I fix her a bowl of Cheerios, put her sneakers on so she won’t stub her toes, and brush the snarls from her hair. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But you always was soft. I thought you’d gone off in one o’ them ships you used to prattle about, sailing, sailing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I go off in their direction, and they race away from me so I chase them, pretending everything is OK. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The radio and television networks went off the air. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He crouched, waiting for the starting gun, which did not go off. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I could do anything I wanted during that time: spit at the walls, sleep on my mat, or simply go off on my own. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z An explosion goes off right above a monument near us, rocketing us all apart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she gave Psyche a crust of bread and bade her sleep on the ground while she herself went off to her soft, fragrant couch. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going off, begging her for the thousandth time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Schools would shut down, roads would close, no one would go off to their jobs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A red alarm on the wall goes off. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This means that the mass and charge don’t go off to infinity, because you are no longer passing an infinite cloud of particles as you approach the electron. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mom glances at the blank screen of her pager, hoping it will go off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We all go off to our respective rooms, Poe winking at me and Will before ducking inside. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He must have borrowed clothes and shoes from a friend and gone off to the yard with the others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I shook hands, we were eyeball to eyeball and I felt my head going off to one side in what Kat calls my duck'that's-forgotten-how-to-quack look. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z "Commander," Beck said, "before we lost telemetry, his decompression alarm went off!" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And now he’d gone off collecting somewhere other than our regular haunts, somewhere I didn’t know about and where I couldn’t find him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I was cleaning my gun and it went off.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She doesn't like me going off in a car with a strange man. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Just two blocks ffom her house, the Townsend Drug Store was about to replace its soda fountain clerk, a fellow who was leaving to go off to college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking that it was very naughty of you to go off in that way at all, leading Edmund into trouble.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I had never been to court before, but judging from all the TV shows—which is all I really had to go off—it seemed almost as scary as going to jail. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z During training it had sometimes seemed as if I was going off to fight monsters, not human beings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at me. I was afraid to speak out for Khalil, and you went off on me about it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She tiptoes into my room even before my alarm goes off on Monday morning. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I left a note on my pack and went off down the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He jerked the wheel, and the entire truck tilted like a bomb had gone off underneath it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Others are scary, like “wolves” and “burglars” and “our car going off a bridge into deep water.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He still went off to work, but he was always distracted. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z "I thought you'd gone off to sleep in there and needed waking up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “You mean—you mean they went off on a vacation? With us missing?” gasped Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A siren went off, scared the hell out of him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamie opens his mouth, but my phone goes off next to me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Somewhere a burglar alarm went off, a meaningless blangy sound, followed by the joyful shouts of looters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess the bomb went off, and I guess it missed.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There were explosions in Shadow’s dream: he was driving a truck through a minefield, and bombs were going off on each side of him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She goes off to the kitchen, joking to Jay and Lena as if everything’s all good. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Nicolas went off to preach at the cafeteria in the university, where he acquired an impressive number of followers for his classes in spiritual and respiratory exercise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnson went off and started looking at a pig that was tied in back of one of the huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “She could tell him what to do. Keep him straight if he goes off course.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Where is she? I never did hear where she went off to.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But the stony-faced rest of them looked as if they were ready to sign up to go off killing somebody—they would have liked to start with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In each situation his wires got triggered and he’d go off. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Leaving his children with relatives, he went off to do his duty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Only reason Loma married Camp, she was mad cause Pa wouldn’t let her go off with those actors. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t mix with the more bothersome element on the plantation, and she knew that he sometimes went off with Frances, one of the housemaids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We brought out a battery radio for reports, since the power would go off if Donna struck. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, nothing. Anyway, what happened after the wind bomb went off?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the midst of this section, a driveway went off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Good night to you,’ said Nob, and went off to take his part in the watch on the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My school shut down just before the War began, when most of the English and French pupils were pulled out, which is why I went off to university a bit early. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z "What have I missed? Last time I saw you, you were going off to kill Nergal...." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Unless they were real sound sleepers the shotgun going off in Todd’s room would give them a clue that something was going on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Joel went off on the tractor to get a load of woodchips from the big pile he keeps across the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They went off to his village and lived there very happily. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I tolja he just gone off somewhere,” May Belle said quietly and stubbornly as though she had repeated it often and no one had believed her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z But tonight some of us are going off script. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “You want to go off on your own, go ahead. But you should know that any harm that comes to you comes to me, too. And Miss Maggie. Real harm. Do you understand?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She told me to go off to school. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If there’s a gun on die wall, it’s got to go off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Except she called it love and went off, happy as a newlywed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, she said she had to get some cigarettes for Jordan. She left just before the lights went off. She said she’d be right back, but she’s been gone for over an hour, I think.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Fifi drops out of college and goes off on a church trip to Perú, chaperoned, of course, otherwise we wouldn't have let her go. We don't believe in all this freedom." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Desma Mann fretted at the idea of her baby going off so far away, all alone, but she had always known that day would come. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Fifth grade was easy—old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z What was he doing, he asked himself, sending Bri into the arms of strangers and preventing Julie from going off with family? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Thirteen minutes after the first bomb exploded, another bomb went off at the same spot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After bringing his sister, Teresa, to safety, Martin went off in search of his mother, Bridget, and his brother, Stephen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Gendry went off by himself afterward, polishing his helm with a look on his face like he wasn't even there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I didn’t have any way to get them home safely, and there were hawks around, even if Ms. Griegson had really gone off to the poultry show this time. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Viola went off to her own service at All God’s Children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “PRECISELY,” shouted the dog as his alarm went off again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He let Matt do dangerous things on their expeditions and go off by himself to explore. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My phone goes off and I look down to see a notification from her app, a tiny pill bottle emoji dancing away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I wonder if the Amber Alert has gone off again—Max and I really have sent the city spinning. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The runners are set and the gun goes off, and the guy with hook legs fires out of the blocks just like the rest of the runners. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Then, feeling that she had done her duty, she went off to her station. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I ask. if you want to change the sufeject, confuse the other person by going off on a wild, chatty detour. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “How is it that I go off to college, and you fall head over heels in love with another fella?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Something slightly different about one of the Reston proteins is probably the reason the virus didn’t go off in Washington like a bonfire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought Ghost pushed off from the line at the exact moment the gun went off, as if he just knew when it was coming. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Everyone faces one way for almost a full minute until the flash goes off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then the TV made a scratchy sound like pouring dry sand on paper and the lights went off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z After the man went off to post the warning signs, my sister and I said goodbye to Shelly and began walking to our bikes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Well, he got suspended for punching Zac, and Cheyenne said that he’s going off the rails. The rich boy trinity: booze, pills, and meaningless sex.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His parents go off to watch TV, and we sit outside on the deck because it’s so warm and beautiful, and I can see the ocean from his backyard. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My mom and I have gone through the power going off plenty of times, but Bryce and Aurora were too little to remember. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I reach up and wedge the bill into the frame’s alarm switch so the alarm doesn’t go off, then I open the door just a crack and slide through onto the rooftop. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I went off to call home from a pay phone and use the men’s room. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My mother goes off to hunt online for jobs, she says, but I find her half an hour later doing nothing, with a screen floating in front of her, motionless. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “At any rate, she is expected. The sister was most annoyed at me because they had planned to go off on their vacation today, although why she should be annoyed at me...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Biddy went off happy to be doing something besides watching me mope. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Having affairs he must see to before he left Iffish, Vetch went off to other villages of the island with the lad who served him as prentice-sorcerer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The Twentieth Maine went off the road and most went to sleep without fires, some without pitching tents, for the night was warm and without a wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was quick to register, and Mom and I even went off into town for the first meeting to elect representatives and office-bearers. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was more a feat of boredom last spring as we all got ready to go off in separate directions for a break from school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Occasionally, however, a bug went off the deep end, and—particularly if he got suicidal—would be sent to the psych unit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not letting you two go off by yourselves. There’ll be more concerts. I’m on your scavenging team whether you like it or not.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “But how would you know—going off and vanishing like that? And what happened to your arm?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They’re dead quiet and I’m waiting for this punk Peck’s phone to go off too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Use than with no sooner: No sooner had we begun to cook than the smoke alarm went off. hence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To go off with this man was to be dragged into the unknown. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Just to see him go off made me nervous. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Jim and most of the other football boys went off down the street, but Buck caught Sherman and O’Dell and me out on the church steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But here a bomb goes off, crude as it is. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Halvey goes off to England with Rose and I have to stay on the messenger bike all through the winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But then she would tell them to go off and work on their step-ball-change for the opening number and they did. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Lou and Marcy agreed that until their son left home and went off to college, three years away, they would go on as if nothing had changed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It goes off again at 5:09, and I hit snooze again. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Someone said later she’d gone off into a daydream, but I was pretty sure, as was Ruth, that she was thinking hard about what to say next. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point that morning, Barack went off to play basketball with Craig and some friends at a nearby gym, which had become a kind of Election Day custom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then Hale asked Spencer to step aside with him, and the two went off to talk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I say, one second from really going off. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “If they are right and there is another bomb, the bomber would want to make sure it went off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "The alarm has gone off!" shrieked The Grand High Witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Now that the trial was over, photographers were free to snap photos, and flashbulbs were going off all over the room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z From the time it starts to the time it goes off, I am sucked into the pageantry of it all. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z ‘After sundown, I reckon. And he’s gone off. Says he’s hungry.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You don’t go off and start spilling secrets about somebody after they give you that much money. Plus, who was I gonna tell? Everybody he cared about was dead by then.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Some of them, I knew, belonged to the trainband and were going off to get their weapons. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve heard people try for their talent that were really good. Early this term an old man sang a song about... about this woman whose husband had gone off to war.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The ball went off the backboard in the net and I pushed Ice off as we came down. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it went off the rails somewhere, though, because now Morgan’s putting the keyboard away and Anna’s texting her mom to pick her up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z In a few weeks he should go off to an institute for artificial limbs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until nine o’clock at night when I was in bed that a bell went off in my head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It flips and crashes into the street, setting off a series of explosions as its cargo goes off. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Captain Newport goes off exploring with eight or nine gentlemen and a dozen sailors. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His eye would blur, he’d have to go off the hold for a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day, while Barack went off for a marathon session of meetings on the economy, I went to visit a school for girls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I stuff the pamphlet under a stone in the corner of the mill, thinking as I do so that it is good Alice has gone off on her own. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not very used to guns. Maybe it wasn’t just like that, but I was cleaning it and it went off.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, he didn’t like the idea of Leo going off with Hazel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dad had gone off in the car, so Mom grabbed me and my younger brother, Brian, and hurried over to the trailer next to ours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That was another thing I had to decide about when the electricity went off: water. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That summer we arrived, we were constantly seeing veterans packing their bags and rucksacks and going off for two or three days at a time with what seemed to us scary nonchalance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He went off his nut from studying too much at the university. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Danny, who adored him, and who had accidentally let him out, almost died too—she went off searching for him and stayed out for hours. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It went off every day to announce noontime, and also to signal the end of daylight fasting during the month of Ramadan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But now he was supposed to let Annabeth go off on her own to follow the Mark of Athena, knowing she might die. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Later I saw her by the supper table, her keen eyes searching the food, and she heaped a plate high with salmon and lobster mayonnaise and went off into a corner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If it went off, how high would this house come off its foundation?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mum's at the gallery seven days a week and Dad keeps going off for interviews that only lead to more interviews. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That was a bornb that went off in the middle of a big train station in London the day after Aunt Penn went to Oslo and something like seven or seventy thousand people got killed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When I drew the picture, I assumed he had gone off somewhere hidden, alone and pathetic, and committed suicide. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You should get up. It’s dark and damp here, and our clever sons have gone off and left us.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they did errands in town together, but Charles also went off to scientific meetings or to talk to an expert about his specimens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The cannon went off, a full thirty seconds late, and the man descended on me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Or: We had scarcely begun to cook when the smoke alarm went off. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘A score or more. But two have gone off west across country.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She looked as if her mouth was set to say no, but instead she said, “You shouldn’t ought to beat me in the head,” and went off obediently to fetch his T-shirt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z An alarm goes off as I burst through the stairwell door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He polished his riding boots so that you could see yourself reflected in them, brushed his suit, and went off to dinner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "I was chief, and you were going to do what I said. You talk. But you can't even build huts then you go off hunting and let out the fire." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The explosion had been a success, and we all quickly returned to our cars and went off in different directions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like another burst of fireworks has gone off inside me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I wonder, for example, if there’s a variation of today where I die going off that cliff. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I also wondered how life would be for one of the lost boys if the other went off to school; they’d been inseparable for so long. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose that’s why he got so worried after the war ended when all the telephones went off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “We need to get the lay of the land before we let you go off by yourself,” her dad said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All the kids watched the woman as she moved along the line, her high-heeled shoes sounding like little firecrackers going off on the wooden floor. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z So, when the alarm went off at seven, I dreamed I was back in that car, stuck in the river, sitting behind Screaming Ned as he sharpened his meat cleavers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Shephard pats me on the back and goes off to put the books away. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z There are holes in the ground, and a mark where a perch fell and was dragged, probably by the coyote as she went off with the sharp-shinned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa walked in like it was the usual thing to go off and get a new young wife before your old wife is cold in the grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Arya was a skilled climber and a fast picker, and she liked to go off by herself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One day I was in the kitchen cleaning dishes—despite my best efforts to avoid them—and a bomb went off so close that the whole house rattled and the fan over the window fell. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before I can move, he knocks the wire, which makes the light go off. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Salim’s head went off to the side and he looked straight at me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a bell went off in his head and said, “Oh Lord, where’s Byron?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the guns go off during the night, between one and four. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Enlisting the aid of the beaver’s highly capable molars, the badger left him gnawing away at a yew sapling in the orchard while she went off to find an arrow that would fit her brainchild. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Papi had sobbed the day Carlos went off to boot camp. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes we went off the road and on a path through the pine forest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Most of the Hobbits and the Men of Bree went off then and there in a huff, having no fancy for further entertainment that evening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I stay there until the shadow moves away and the light goes off. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She would go off on a whole range of things. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then Mami comes rushing, like an alarm went off in her head, and she remembers she has a daughter who can’t leave her bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z How long did they have before the bomb went off? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then the weeks went by and the radio stations went off, one by one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Bess insists on driving us, but she goes off by herself while we go shopping. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z For some alarm or booby trap to go off. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She was the only person in Deep Water who’d ever had a face-lift—went off to Charleston to get it—and anybody from out of town could have guessed it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z One ramp goes off the junction through a park and ends in a circle, a nice hubbub of residential activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The first meeting of the enlarged Egypt gang had gone off much more smoothly than they had expected. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She laughs, and a comfortable silence settles over the both of us until she goes off to get some lunch. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z There was a loud bang, like a gun going off, and Bridge’s body locked itself down. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Something had happened since she had seen him last; since, last night, he had gone off in his car. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I got up every morning, polished my saddle shoes, and went off to war,” I reply. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they went off to the same college. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then a buzzer goes off and the next tribute is up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Welch Daily News had stories all the time about Welch students going off to college and winning honors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After the experience I gained there, I felt ready to go off on my own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The kids in the neighborhood were going off to school, and as they passed, Morrie looked down, ashamed that his classmates would see him this way. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a bomb went off inside me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The doors have thick glass, but I still hear her go off on him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “That went off very well,” says Charna, with a sigh, of relief I think. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We sat down in the living room while his mom went off to the kitchen to make dinner, and then he asked if I wanted to play a game. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But it looks like I’m the only one who cares, because Garrett has already gone off to hunt for free samples. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We eat, avoiding any conversation about the situation with my parents, or going off to school in the fall, or definitions of what we are. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Gunshots go off close by—a little too close by—and all of us jump. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z "I just never thought of my mom going off as well," she said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Finally, just when I was beginning to think this would never work, they both went off to the bathroom, leaving their belongings on the bench. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “An alarm might go off if the wrong person touches it. They might have set up that level of security.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “She said she was going off into the jungle to search for her prince,” Petra said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z We went off the road and slid into the grassy median. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When the other, completely bewildered, had gone off in his boat, the girl returned to her own shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They went off their first reactions and didn’t think it through. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy laughed and went off to talk to a colleague from work. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to answer, but my phone goes off again, and I figure I should check it or else it will just vibrate and vibrate until it drives me out of my mind. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I’m okay. The electricity went off and me and Tiger were just sitting here in the dark, trying not to be scared.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You ever see them little stars that go off in your head? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened, in this case, that the student had simply gone off to New York City on the bus without telling anybody. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I drained a cup of coffee and we went off to get our things. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Based on Chambliss’s best guess, it should have gone off around three or four in the morning, which would have prevented our congregation from meeting for church but would not have harmed anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Another bomb had gone off just when they thought they were going to be rescued. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But then, after another pause, Harry added, without looking up, “Sometimes Thula and I go off on little excursions, though. Nobody home but the kids then.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing fieldwork. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks, with terrific speed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She has her fingers curled tightly around his forefinger and I have hold of her perfect pink foot, and I feel as though fireworks are going off in my chest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I went off to bed with my heart all tom up in little pieces, and cried myself to sleep. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And if Ob does go, goes off to be with May, then it’ll be just me and the whirligigs left. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Driving home, distraught and reckless, speeding, she’d nearly gone off the side of the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z So he grabbed his gun and straddled his best horse and went off wid de rest of de gray-headed men and young boys to drive de Yankees back into Tennessee. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A gunshot goes off, and suddenly his knees give out, and he goes down, and there’s blood on his face—and there’s blood on Garrett’s face too, but Garrett isn’t dead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The thought itself made Mama so anxious that she got ready to go off in haste, though Baby Neewo was still sleeping. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They went off to the Invalid’s Room, where Kuda was methodically shredding his mattress. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z So, the little ones went off to school and I kept working. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A tire alarm goes off and the sprinklers switch on, drenching everyone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It’s peaceful, watching them, until the horns go off like sirens, so loud that they hurt my teeth. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I know you don’t believe me, but I’m telling the truth. Something must have happened to him. He would never just go off without telling me.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Warning alarms went off in my mind at the sight of Chubs’s nostrils flaring and his lips twisting with anger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z ‘It’s not like the kid was just fooling with the gun and it went off by accident. Everybody who saw it said he took deliberate aim.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We waited in the lobby as each hotel official went off in search of his superior to see what could be done. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I go down the ladder, ready to go off and find some other quiet place. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Himmelstoss saw that we meant it and went off without saying a word. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “He went off in class today. Breaking stuff and knocking his desk over.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z One by one, the little ones first, they went off behind the dunes to go to the bathroom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a group of gentlemen go off to search for a place for us to settle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Only five or six big ones went off, but what beauts they were. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The heat goes off, comes on again, goes off, at random. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But you couldn’t go off and leave a six-year-old alone, in the woods, in a strange place. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the two went off to have some more tea. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Jennifer said, trying to ignore the tiny warning alarms going off inside her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The gun jumped in my hand as it went off, but in that instant, the flash lit up her terrified face, an unfinished scream drowned out by the bang. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Marcus goes off on a tangent about different schools that his girlfriend, Tiffanie, is looking at and how he’s going to a community college near whatever school she chooses. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Just then a tremendous bang went off in the middle of the camp. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The crowd became quiet a few minutes before Old Faithful was due to go off. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A fierce woman, she was said to have beat up Papa Dozie once, after he left their sick child and went off to visit his mistress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Sam used to go to help Father, and after Sam went off to college Father got Tom Warrups to go wife him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me that the other night she dreamed she had come into the apartment and set fire to all my books and notes, and that we went off dancing around the flames. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Every time a mortar went off, I jumped. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But even as they talked, the night temperature started to drop and it was as if a switch went off. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “Before you two hopeless cases go off the deep end,” he said bluntly, “may I ask a question: Have you been putting these poison mushrooms in our food?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z To this day, when we arrive at a rental house in Hawaii or on Martha’s Vineyard, Barack goes off looking for an empty room that can serve as the vacation hole. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was during supper that she heard the trap go off. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She was scared, and afraid to tell the boy’s name, because she figured that her daddy just might go off and kill him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening while Father was out and Shirley was pasting clippings in her Dodgers scrapbook, the lights suddenly went off. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The thermostat had failed, and the heat would not go off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy who was holding the gun when it went off has not been seen in the neighborhood since that day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I was relieved to find it empty—Mom must have gone off to deal with another job or crisis. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The claymore went off, and we all hit the dirt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But before he could turn around, the gun went off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For those two afternoons, the Tillermans could go off to a park or a public beach after they had completed the morning chores, or after Maybeth had returned from church with Cousin Eunice. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For two days, in a congressional hearing room packed with spectators and news reporters, as flashbulbs went off and news cameras whirred, Elizabeth Bentley revealed the sensational details of her spying for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The gun goes off and all runners shoot forward. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The first time the power went off after he arrived, the buzzing, whirring, piping sounds of her UPS startled him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “But they might be dead I” “They are not dead, I know. In a minute or two they will come round and go off home to dinner.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought, hell, he's gone off on his own, or something, he'll get lost, I shall have to start looking for him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “He goes off every morning in a crisp white shirt. And every night he comes home wrinkled and pit-stained with his sleeves rolled up.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z So ten years earlier, Charles had left Edinburgh and had gone off to study theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, the officer’s gun went off—she says it was an accident—and your arm was hit.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Then he looked back, and to his great joy he perceived that the Lillian had gone off in a wild direction and was yawing all over the pond. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z When I started off on this book, the youngest of my three children had just gone off to college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Martin Bundini just left him standing there and went off with his arm over John’s shoulder. He was so mad he started to cough, and that made him even madder.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Well, I would be, once I found where my sheet had gone off to in the dark. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A relatively large number of officers—eight to a dozen—were assigned to each meal because of the prison mess hall’s well-known reputation as a place where in-mates can “go off.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sirens and whistles go off all over the city when the men finish work at half-past five. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “No, the bomb hasn’t gone off,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you gone off your...oh, hi there, S.Q.! What brings you by our table?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Or, “Otis, open your ears up. Buzzer going off!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Not five minutes ago, Scoob wanted Dad, but now that he’s calling...what if Scoob answers and Dad starts going off the way he does? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z When Shepherd went off the air, Bobby continued to twist the dial searching for other broadcasts and shows. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see the pleasure in it—going off to step into a war between two families. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z One: The storm sirens in town went off, slicing through the quiet like an angry ghost. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The news spread like a virus as those informed by Paul Revere sent out riders of their own, until alarms were going off throughout the entire region. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While it was a very difficult experience for me to be at odds with my family for all those months, I’m glad I went off on my own to figure things out for myself. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When her alarm went off the next morning, Eleanor couldn't remember having fallen to sleep. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Poppet nods, and Widget tips his hat to them both and goes off into the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Jane and Michael had gone off to a party, wearing their best clothes and looking, as Ellen the housemaid said when she saw them, “just like a shop window.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z As the producers intended, I think people sat just about limp when the program went off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have slept through Dad’s going off to work the next morning, ’cause when I wake, Becky’s standing beside the couch eating a piece of honey toast and breathing on my face. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands are fast, almost effortless, even as he goes off into a tangent about the War of the Romantics and how Liszt’s daughter left her husband for Wagner, quel scandale. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I may not drink it,” Ignatius said as the bartender went off to open the beers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Papi asks when the flash on my camera goes off a couple of seconds later. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The characters in the stories she read always seemed to go off without a thought or care, but in real life—well, the world was a dangerous place. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she’d confronted him about it, and he’d gone off on some nonsense about the world needing to learn to respect him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes it didn’t go off for a matter of minutes, during which we sat tensely, with frozen-faced smiles, while we tried to keep the younger children from squirming. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank starts that old man snore of his—because he always goes to sleep the instant the TV goes off. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then one evening, at the end of June, soon after Frodo’s plan had been finally arranged, he suddenly announced that he was going off again next morning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She looked around but didn’t see where their mother had gone off to. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Since going off to private school—and hanging around the Object—my tastes had been changing, becoming refined, I thought. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She just tells me to go off and get my chores or schoolwork done. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then the other campers went off to their afternoon classes— gladiator fighting, Latin lessons, paintball with ghosts, eagle training, and a dozen other activities that sounded better than a suicide quest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Your father had been taken by beasts. It had been several months since he went off to hunt and did not return. And so I would not give birth again. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Close examination of the scene revealed the blown-apart body of the terrorist, who had evidently tripped and fallen upon the bomb just as it went off. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z "Just thanks. The fireworks would have gone off in my face if you hadn't pulled the box toward you. Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn't look at your notes or clues, honest." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A cell phone went off in his pocket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “I bet he’s going off to die,” I said. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I had ground the powder especially fine for the last bottle we detonated, however, and when it went off, it blew a crater a foot deep. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” I say, “you know how Grammy says that you don’t go off telling people other people’s business, acting like it’s yours just because you know about it? You let people tell their own stories?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Gunfire and shells were going off around them, and the airfield was peppered with ugly little antipersonnel mines people called “frogs,” which would explode if you stepped on them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “No safer place to break a leg. Besides, Barb just went off shift.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Her husband, a product of a southern plantation, had, like my father, gone off and left her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hopefully, we can get settled in before you go off to college, Seven,” Momma says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I had heard bombs go off in my neighborhood, but it seemed unfathomable that it could happen in this safe haven. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “First things first. Y’all two need to look out for each other when you’re working roots. Don’t let Jezebel go off by herself, Jay.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A keychain with a timer that would go off when your parking meter was about to expire? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z While he finished putting up his tent, I went off to filter water for the morning. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘I is going off to wait in the garden,’ the BFG whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Flashbulbs going off in his face during the interview cast his skin in various shadows. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The buzzer went off as the ball went down and the referee pointed to it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lights go off in a lonely house at the end of the macadam, and I’m on a dirt road. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was in my pocket but it wasn’t, so I went off and found a few sticks to throw to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But when they stopped in at the realty offices and filled out applications, they found that the houses suddenly went off the market, or were sold, or doubled in price. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “A lot of good flying. After going off that carrier for a year, I figure I could land on a match box in case of an emergency.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Someone else planted a bomb in her car but it went off too early. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the two of them, Grandpa might not even notice when I went off to the University. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Fry tells me she went off with Zephyr, but I can’t find them anywhere. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Had he watched and laughed as the foolish little girl went off on impossible missions? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Some hours, eighty or ninety of these flares would go off, one after another, and the night would turn stark and strange in that magnesium glow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hyena went off to a quiet place and wept. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Good luck. Your daddy’s done planned out your whole life. You cain’t go off to no shack in the woods; you’re going to the Tuskegee Institute to get learned.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain read the order and added nothing, went off by himself to sit down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The moment we told him about the riot, he went off to the campsite.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was born on 27 December 1571, but when he was only 2 his father went off to fight in the Netherlands, and Katherine followed, leaving the infant in the care of his grandfather. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The gun accidentally went off and hit one of them in the forehead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “He’s just gone off—devil may care—and broken his mother's heart.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She is much more gregarious than Chris was and can’t imagine going off into the wilderness—or virtually anywhere else—alone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the flash of a camera going off in my head, the number 26.2 comes alive with meaning. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then all of a sudden you see something happen to somebody else, and the lightbulb goes off over your head. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Go to Silsbee’s Cove. See if the women have come back yet from hiding. Grandsire will be about... he said he wouldn’t go off hiding. He’d sit it out—in his chair.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They could not get hold of Jaimito, for he had gone off to a tobacco auction for the day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she went off to answer a ringing phone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But pretty soon, we went off in the direction of a large shed that was on the far side of the clearing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily was going off with Nathan to get together with some of his friends, so I went into the house alone. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z However, once the lights went off—Toby unable to get comfortable on the couch because of the bruise his dad had tattooed on his ribs—he finally let go. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Something whizzes overhead, then an explosion goes off in front of us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z At first I thought it was White Noise; all at once, the building’s security alarms, intercom system, and televised displays went off, a hundred different voices screaming at us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When he put his weight on it, a shower of silver needles gushed up the length of the calf and went off in the knee. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And are all those beastly giants over there really going off again tonight to eat people?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I pivot down and dart away right as it goes off. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I go off into the woods to relieve myself. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I wish I was a witch, Pan, then you could go off and find him and take messages and all, and we could make a proper plan….” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He must have been instinctively just going off in search of something good to eat—right? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She met me at the apartment just about as Shorty went off to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was a snappy gold-colored day, we went off to get some more rabbit skins to finish my winter underwear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Therry wanted to go off to war when he was old enough, to fight in battles and become a knight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was a good player—not a champion, since his aim was going off a bit in his old age, but we’d have great fun. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Clem goes off to get a new one of those books he’s reading. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z If a man goes off and joins the English army his family might as well move to another part of Limerick where there are families with men in the English army. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He told me that the annual fall chest X-ray showed he had caught TB and he was going off on a scholarship for medical students who caught TB to a TB place in the Adirondacks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We'll push the car down the slope—they may not notice it in the dark, and even if they do, they'll think we went off the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z So she wrote a note and left it on the floor by his bedside, and took her rucksack and went off to look for the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not fathom it: living here before going off to war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then they go off and I return to the camp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that—little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack went off on the sleigh with the white witch, without warning or word. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Still stuck in this hellhole, with God only knew how many more bombs ready to go off at any minute. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Zlata was trapped in her basement while she heard bombs going off and people screaming. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She could barely thrash her way through a few strokes, forget passing the deepwater test necessary to go off the diving boards that towered at the end of the right dock. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The two shots had not gone off simultaneously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He checked himself with difficulty so as not to spin around, but he went off his balance again and took two or three staggering steps forward before he was able to stand up straight. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The buzzer went off ending the girls' game and the voice of the manager squealed out for the team to take the court. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, my mom came in to wake me up before my Hulk alarm went off. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And she herself said that the murder took place just as she looked out and the lights went off a split second later. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Time to get moving. My alarm never went off. You already missed the bus. I’m driving you and your brother to school.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Instead of going off to war he was going to night school and helping out at the bar during the day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z These guys are going off every which way. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On Joseph’s last day in London, he packed his suitcase and prepared to go off to his new school. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Ma and Pa enjoy taking us to a noodle shop in the morning before Pa goes off to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes a lot of nerve to go off on somebody, call them out, and tell them you love them within a span of five minutes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They had a difficult time convincing their wives that they had to go off into distant fields. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "I didn't go far. Anyway, Nymeria was with me the whole time. I don't always go off, either. Sometimes it's fun just to ride along with the wagons and talk to people." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Normal kids grow up too soon, stop needing you... go off on their own... forget who loved them and took care of them. But these children need all you can give—all of their lives.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “You’re sure she didn’t come back and then go off somewhere else?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And assuming Leo’s doomsday candles didn’t go off by accident - Leo’s inventions sometimes did that - in which case the weather would get much hotter, with a ninety percent chance of fiery apocalypse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The fourth was a girl who, like Etta herself, eloped and went off to Seattle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On Tuesday the manuscript was sent up to Bragg’s office and on Wednesday, April 2, went off to the editors of Nature. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He slammed the side of his head against the steering wheel and cursed when the loud horn went off. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In 1949, she married Father Mike and soon they went off to live in Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Right now, I actually look forward to the day you go off to grad school.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z If I got all involved, I’d forget I had lit the bomb, and then even I’d be surprised when it went off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z No telling what they’d say about her going off to New York unchaperoned with a man she claimed she wasn’t really married to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mark heard the distinct power surge and zing of Alec’s Transvice going off, heard the shocked gasps coming from above as people saw one of their comrades disappear in a flash of gray mist. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z After high school, Gray worked his way rapidly through Alabama State College and then went off to law school in Ohio. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The green light on the machine went off. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It’s on vibrate, and it goes off at two in the morning, dragging me from what feels like the bottom of the ocean. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I would have expected it to go off by now; otherwise it’s not much good.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The day of the vote, I sprang out of bed before my Hulk alarm clock went off. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But then she’d snap at me for having made some comment or other and I’d go off to school feeling completely discouraged. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z How many kids this week, he wondered, had woken up to find their worlds changed that way, their parents gone off to war, maybe never coming home? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He nodded to the coast-guard and went off down the cliff towards the cove. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After he went out we saw a searchlight come on and watched the beam move across the sky and then go off and it was dark again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sirens go off nearby, and it’s as hazy and smoky as the rest of the neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z For several heartbeats she'd been terrified it would head toward her, but in the end it had gone off the opposite way into the woods. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She got up without a word and went off for the shoes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z We just stare and smile at each other when that last flash goes off. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Well I” said Arthur, and he went off sadly down the two hundred and eight stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Goat’s children, shocked by what had happened to them, went off into the bushes, stifling their tears as they did so. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He'd been playing pickup basketball at the Y; after two hours he went off for a drink of water; he used a jump rope; his friends found him hanging from a water pipe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They are just like walking time bombs waiting to go off, and when they do, the consequences can be deadly. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Oh well, I suppose he’s gone off to find something for himself. We’ll finish it,’ said Sam. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had just wanted him to realize what could have happened had she been in the building when the bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He registers dimly that it’s the first time he’s ever heard the prince swear, before the flash from someone’s camera goes off. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Percival had gone off, crying, and Johnny was left in triumphant possession of the castles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z After break, she went off to Arithmancy while Harry and Ron returned to the common room, where they grudgingly started Snape’s homework. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The boy hired to guard the car has gone off. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly alarms go off and agents rush past me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t be surprised if you turn out better than Charlie Weasley, and he could have played for England if he hadn’t gone off chasing dragons.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z More screams, more confusion; and again the gun went off, but this time by accident, it seemed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The alarm clock went off early the next morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z My alarm went off at seven exactly, switching over to the radio, just as Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was starting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He could go off talking to himself for an hour straight. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Then he went off, after congratulating me and Francis for our excellent chemical work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy’s face, which lay in her pillow, almost whiter than the lawn. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The road curved and we saw the three cars looking quite small, the dust rising from the wheels and going off through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The people all went off, together with the baboons, to plough the largest of the fields, which was the chief’s field. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z No one’s thrilled with the idea of me going off alone, but the threat of dehydration hangs over us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They lined up to board the bus while the scene in my head began to go off on its own, to stop taking my directorial notes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Tam Lin climbed through the rock and went off into the gathering dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew if Momma had stayed and hadn’t gone off mumbling about money we would have been having a lot more fun. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So I said hi and tried not to be suspicious or mad, and after Dad went off toward the vineyards, we sat and talked about chickens for a while. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He would only wave from the door as he went off to work in the mornings. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d probably found something shiny and gone off to hide it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When he goes off to chuck spears with Brutus and Chaff, I head over to the knot-tying station. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In between times he went off on more ambitious hikes of his own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want her to go off home with her feelings still hurt. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Thursday morning I wake before my alarm goes off. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Did—did Maxim mind her going off alone like that?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The lights went off for a flashlight show, little rings of light twirling around, once again like something from the circus. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always the model of old-fashioned manners, of course, but he could go off on strange and interesting tangents of conversation that I think Mother didn’t always find suitable in polite company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Not as long as I can read. But I did the next best thing. I went off to be a soldier.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Once, when hiking with his family, Rowan had gone off on his own and had encountered a mountain lion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And so the pleasant evening unraveled—the noisy meal at which I even drank a little wine, the presents, bedtime for the younger children, while their bigger brothers and sisters went off to watch television. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Matt, undaunted, had gone off with his dog to find his mates, wherever they might be in such weather. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A beeping goes off but I can’t stay awake to find out who it will summon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve studied a floor plan of the house, remember. If we let you go off wandering by yourself we’d very likely never find you again.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Now that I think about it,” Mrs. Strawberry goes on, “Alice might have been going off to find her own place.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What a "pyrotechnic display" that would make if they all went off at the same time. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed no longer the bright arms that Odysseus left at home when he went off to Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And why didn’t he go off and join the army, like everyone else white who used to work here? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I went off to England in excellent spirits. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I told her about the weeks I spent in the enclosure, what Otto and I ate and drank, and then about the electricity going off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I went off my man and went after their center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z His AK-47 went off as he fell to the ground, grabbing at the thin stake of wood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This perplexed me for a moment until I realized that no one could possibly want any of my possessions, so I just pulled it shut and went off to find Katz and go to dinner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “To go off like that, and never say a word!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the sound of those rockets alarmed you,” said Frith, “they went off so very sudden.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Why would any Indian risk going off to work in sugar? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The people around went off on their own ways, carrying their own heavy bags of groceries. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador went off on her errand frowning, and he returned still frowning though he had good news. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “It happened again up at the store one day. Grandpa shot a chicken hawk. When the gun went off, it scared her half to death. No, she’s gun-shy all right.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To pretend that things hadn’t gone off the rails and that everything was just fine now that the threat was gone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When it goes off, Maxine asks, “What do you know about that song? That was out when I was in middle school.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in frustration, he would grab one of the piles and go off and begin to smoke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They went off to find the Afrikaner in the barn, supervising the birth of a calf. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if the power goes off, it’s going to be like an oven in there.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She bought an extra alarm clock, which she set to go off two minutes after her original one; then a third clock, to go off after the second. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn't in the building when the first two bombs went off, or when the judge's watch was stolen, Jake Wexler thought. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z But behind Mama’s back, so that each time she thinks a box is full and ready to be taped closed, she goes off somewhere and comes back only to find it half empty again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z John Wilkes Booth came and lost his savings, then went off to kill a president, but others stayed and made a fortune. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “My dad shouldn’t have gone off like that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The old woman listened carefully and immediately went off to tell the chief what the bird had said to her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Other times the sum goes off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer in particular had evolved; he no longer was the aloof, self-absorbed intellectual who had gone off to Los Alamos anxious to prove himself in the world beyond theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I’m fast asleep when the ping goes off. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The next thing we knew, the stupid fire alarm was going off. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about anything on this earth except the way her face was tipped toward mine, our noses just touching, how wide and gorgeous her smile was, like sparklers going off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She realized she had made her own puddle on the floor of the hut when the land mine went off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that I can’t go off to New Orleans, like Khalid was never alive—like he never existed at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “Because he done let this child’s mother go off and die when the child was born. That’s how so.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I went off through the silent courts and alleys of the Palace, my boots crunching on the thin moonlit snow, and homeward through the deep streets of the city. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “And,’ added Digory, “if you think I’m such a mean pig as to go off and leave Polly—and the Cabby—and the horse—in a place like this, you’re well mistaken.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z But when supper’s over and I go off to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I peek back through the doorway, and Dad’s over by Shiloh’s box, letting him lick his plate clean. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We found some shade, dropped our gear, and Johnson and Peewee went off looking for a latrine. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” said Mother, “take a deep breath. No one’s going to hurt you. When we ’re Finished, you can go off to your room for a nap. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Look for yourself. Here’s the very last map in the whole flaming atlas! We went off that over an hour ago!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s still dark when the alarm goes off in the morning and Laman Griffin snorts and blows his nose and hawks the stuff from his chest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then she gave an account of how the dinner ended with the twins’ note, and the search parties going off into the grounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When the White Noise went off, we were in the Garden, pulling weeds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Maddie was going off duty by the time the ambulance men had finished hurriedly patching up the German pilot and brought him into the ground floor office of the control tower. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Oh, God, I thought, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "Couldn't we go off in the country for a while?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The sound goes off the close walls in the root cellar and back at me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He went off inside before I thought of anything else to say. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I did then venture to ask her one evening during one of our sessions over cocoa: 'And will you be going off again on Thursday, Miss Kenton? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the truth. Kick one and he just goes under the porch for an hour. Kick another, he goes off and don’t come back.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z My alarm goes off at five, and I hit snooze. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The first bell goes off, and through the windows, we can see kids hustling to get to class before the tardy bell. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Methuselah had gone off to seek the solitude of his gatehouse study, where he claimed he could think more clearly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I give up,” shouted the tormented man and went off to his work in the pulp magazine house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, like most days, they’d gone off with Wash. Where exactly or to do what, Naomi didn’t know. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The curvature goes off to infinity because the black hole takes up zero space; the star has torn a hole in space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "What bloody-fool things people do. Why didn't she go off with some of her own people? Or you?"—he slurred that over—"or me? Why not me?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Really, the only time Dad ever brings G’pop up is to say, “No son of mine will become a low-life criminal like my father!” when he’s going off on Scoob about some “infraction” or another. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Two fists can fit in this plot, and I’m shuffling the bird’s body and head off the newspaper and into the hole right when a flash goes off behind me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “What kind of answer is that? I thought Uncle Jack had finally gone off his rocker but I’m not so sure now!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps Hill House has a tower, or a secret chamber, or even a passageway going off into the hills and probably used by smugglers—although what could smugglers find to smuggle around these lonely hills? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He glanced at die dead men on their stakes, smiled, and went off to join Ser Godry and the other queen’s men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She could say they were visiting and the children had come to meet Aunt Cilla, and then later the Tillermans could go off and—and do what? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Without another word, he went off, leaving me alone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When I pressed it a second time, the light would go off again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A warning bell goes off in my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was hardly the same as going off on a business trip and then setting up an automatic text to arrive a week later saying she was never coming back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off, one after another. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With the other boys in attendance, I tossed the tube in the fire and had the door half closed when it went off with a huge whoooosh! October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I am overwhelmed, and for a second it scares me, like the time Zack set all my alarm clocks to go off at once. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She and Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left to find the softest bit of floor he could and to cud up under the thinnest, most ragged blanket. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I am enormously happy to see so many Freedom Writers excited and anxious to go off to college, but don’t they realize what leaving means? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I saw all this, and so I touched her on the shoulder and went off back to the others. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The next thing I heard was the song on my radio as the alarm went off, waking me out of a cold, sweaty dream. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the alarms go off at the same time—buzzing and chiming and ringing and shrieking—all much louder than I’ve ever heard them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z ‘You became pregnant by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion.’ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z At the age of 16, George went off to live with his brother at Mount Vernon, Lawrence’s Potomac River plantation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If me and the preacher went off and left him by himself in the trailer, he pulled all the cushions off the couch and all the toilet paper off the roll. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon Sass went off to the village to get medicine for Hari, saying she could not trust a girl my age to get what was needed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z During the writing the cleaning woman came in to say that she was going off, for her morning work wTas finished. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look like,” he said sullenly, “that won’t none of these young men be satisfied till they can go off and get themselves crippled or killed.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Finally the door to the roof is in sight, cracked open under a bright red alarm just ready to go off. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Even though the individual terms go to zero, the sum goes off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He’ll go off on a drinking binge and then pop back up out of nowhere a week later. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I knew that when Oliver and the National Executive read my memo, their fears that I had gone off the road would be allayed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They finished, and Sam went off to the stream to rinse his gear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Riemann made it perfectly acceptable to go off to infinity; since infinity is just a point on the sphere like any other point, it was no longer something to be feared. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If it came down quickly—bang!—the gun would go off. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A barrage of bombs went off on the bridge to signal their victory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We had hardly begun to cook when the smoke alarm went off. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A lamp has been mounted above my divan bed so that in the future, when I hear the guns going off, I’ll be able to pull a cord and switch on the light. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He went off with a yelp into the night and was never heard of again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The deer leaped and turned and went off through the trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “One summer when I was about nine, my dad went off to rehab for his dryer sheet addiction. He used to huff ’em down in the basement, box after box. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z While the centaur and the mermaids went off to fetch Frank, Leo and Hazel floated above the hill and gazed down at the underwater camp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The next day, after Wes went off to school, Mary began searching through his drawers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They brought out the worst in her, made her feel so inadequate, but still she felt uneasy now, as she always did when the twins went off to a new home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He held the gun tightly; he wondered if he was holding it too tightly, so tightly that it would go off before he wanted it to. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My delusion detector went off less and less while I was around Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Tom Geisbert went off to collect some pickled monkey liver that he could photo graph for viruses, hoping to prove that the Mar- burg-like agent lived in the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We learned about them during the orientation for new citizens. They’re designed to penetrate deep in the ground before they go off. Because there’s no point in bombing Thirteen on the surface anymore.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After the concert Mama and Papa Bellini had to go off for the evening. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Trust me, no, I didn’t. You’ll know when I go off on you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The firemen had axed their way through what seemed to be every wall and every door, leaving the place looking like a bomb had gone off. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The Corcorans were thoughtless but this was unconscionable; those monsters, I thought, those imbeciles, they just went off and left it here all by itself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You go off up here every day almost.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When the firecrackers went off, he cried loud—wah!—with a big open mouth even though he was not a baby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He went off to search for more clues, and I saw Lacey’s and Ben’s flashlights dipping as they went through a Troll Hole, but I just stood there in the office, imagining her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I knew I hadn’t shared all my troubles with them, and I knew they were terribly concerned that I had gone off to live on my own, but still, their assumptions angered and hurt me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I set the timer. This bomb is going to go off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z "No, listen, Jake. Brett's gone off with men. But they weren't ever Jews, and they didn't come and hang about afterward." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She had always hated the war, even talk of war, fretting so about his brother, who had gone off and yet never sent a word, not one. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z If the bomb went off, all of them would get caught in the blast. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We were in roll call and we heard these shots going off— and it was Johnny and Tyrone shooting at dogs on their way to school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I would go off with Luke, and neglect them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I should have remembered the plague they brought, because I had almost fallen back to sleep when the stabbing whistle of the volunteer fire department went off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Before the store had a complete roof, Jody had canned goods piled on the floor and was selling so much he didn’t have time to go off on his talking tours. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Jimmy threw up a three and caught nothing but net and everybody on our side of the gym went off. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Poseidon felt satisfied and went off contentedly to plan some other storm somewhere, and Athena, left free to act, calmed the waves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He would go off and kill Medusa and bring back her head as his gift. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai also saw, in the larger tunnels, a system of rails going off into the dark. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She goes off to join her friends, a couple of younger girls who are just as well-dressed as she is. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you. My lie detector was going off. Try again: Are you running away from home?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “When she dies she’ll go off to her reward in that rocking chair.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The youngest had just gone off with a German man when they discovered she was pregnant. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Four years my daughter goes off to college and what does she come home with?” she asks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And, over on the other side of Emma, Finn was holding her hand, so the three of them probably looked like really, really little kids going off to preschool or something like that. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I wondered what it was like for my sister, cramped into a yellow Volkswagen Beetle with the folded and hairy Chit, heading toward the sunset, going off to find herself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I like the way the points go off into infinity, like a chain of Gods. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was just getting loose and she was going off like he was doing something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Coraline considered this carefully, then she took the paper and pen and went off to explore the inside of the flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Anyway, one of the bombs went off track, and, well...” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z That night, when the power went off, her generator would not come on, and she suspected that her driver, Ayo, had been sold diesel spiked with kerosene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Well, Miss Spitty thought a cup of tea would be delightful, and Viola went off to make it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z All of a sudden Byron’s face jumped like a bell went off in his head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hopped down from the stump and went off toward the smell,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to tell them about the bus, but explosions go off and thick white smoke engulfs us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Kunthi’s husband went off to fetch the midwife, leaving me with the sweating girl. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He went off to arrange about the expedition. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe, she thought, they had gone off and seeded the land and growed up in these young people in the dime store with the cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z On the aborted landing, the plane’s Ground Proximity Warning System went off no fewer than fifteen times, telling the captain that he was bringing in the plane too low. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When my alarm went off the next morning, I hid under the comforter. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z At a Shanghai bus station, Shin browsed through a Korean-language magazine, found a list of Korean restaurants, and went off again in search of work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The bombs were all supposed to go off later, and in three waves, to make people think that the person behind the attacks was somewhere near the school, setting them off with a cell phone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The alarm will go off in seven minutes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I was the captain of the fencing team for two years; I went off to fence at Duke. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “The shock from hearing the rifle go off caused her to drop her hearing aid down the toilet—I guess she had it turned up too high.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The power went off that evening, just before the sun fell. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z After a while, though, they went off into thicker bush, where the trees grew closely together and there were many places for the animals to hide. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z As he went off, Joe sat on the step and watched. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Another bomb was ready to go off, and the bomber was one of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “All I’m saying is, Tall Man went off to live in the woods for a reason,” Cal said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “A bus went off the road here—a year or more ago,” he said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Let’s get the shopping carts and garbage bags. We can risk taking the elevator up, but we’d better be careful, because once it goes off, it might stay off until Tuesday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Filling one of Miss Love’s boxes, I remembered one time Smiley said his folks were gone off and he’d get his little sister to go down to the barn with us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And the army took him, and Littmus went off to war, just like that. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why you want to go off to war?” she asked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had pulled her close as a photographer approached; later, after the flashbulb went off, Olanna had called the photographer over and asked him please not to publish the photo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No. But I was watching the police car coming up the road so I wasn’t watching where I was going and I went off the sidewalk and fell off my bike. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said the guard, “but I go off when the train arrives.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rado claimed that his older sister had gone off to college and gotten a tiny zebra butterfly tattooed on her butt. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “At one point, I had to disown my family to go off and live my own life, too. I understand why you need to do the same.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my father hands me the snapshot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Would the bomb inside go off if she dropped it? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z An air rifle went off and a pellet hit my neck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "Brett's rather cut up. But she loves looking after people. That's how we came to go off together. She was looking after me." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “But I bet you’re excited about leaving home and going off to Atlanta, right?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z As much as we needed to go off and have our California adventure, it was nice to be back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z While the older boys went off to the fields to look for the biggest pumpkin, the mother made a special meal for her youngest son. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z When my friends in the east text me in the morning, my phone can start going off as early as five a.m. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It was an incredible mystery to Bernabe why people did not go off their rockers every five minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily went off somewhere but returned just as the lady was combing my newly straightened and curled hair into a style. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Or that the idea of remaining here in 13 with the latest version of Peeta while Gale goes off to fight is unbearable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Oh never mind,” snapped Parvati, and she went off with the boy from Beauxbatons. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Carter asks; “Dallas, is your freak alarm going off?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Not so fast, master, they are going off the line.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamp in Miss Love’s room went off around midnight, but Rucker was still out there in that garden, walkin’ back and forth, forth and back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I returned the greeting and went off to find Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A shrill sound went off as they drove out of Orlu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And, of course, there are all the dead people who rest temporarily downstairs, until they go off to the Snapfinger Cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z No new fireworks went off, nor was there any indication given about what now occupied his mind. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “He went out before I went off. I saw him go.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I step back to let Caleb practice, and watch Tris fire again, watch the straight lines of her body as she lifts the gun, and how steady she is when it goes off. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Just as I’m trying to decide whether to show teeth, a huge flash goes off and blinds me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The moment the blast went off, it was as if someone had flipped a switch inside me, and just like that, the Feeling had vanished. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sonny gives us dap and goes off to the visual arts wing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Introduce her to another to go off with him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Can you believe Mr. Milton got all loud at me in history? I was about to go off on him!” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z On the war: The Capitol fell the day the parachutes went off, President Coin leads Panem now, and troops have been sent out to put down the small remaining pockets of Capitol resistance. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Just head for the bunker if the alarm goes off. Nothing will happen. I may be a little late if we go educating in Mbaise today.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Harry could hear them both talking very fast in French as they went off into the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Eventually I went off to swill out the bowls and hang the food bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But it went off all right, and Pedro Romero shook hands with every one and he and the critic went out together. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “She went off to fight,” Francia says, not looking at me, opening the door. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was his fault, they said, all of it, he was the one who'd gone off first, he had chosen to go into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I'm still trying to think of a question to ask Jane when the bell goes off, and we all hustle inside. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z A minute later, three different guns rapidly went off. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She went off to deal with a distant customer, and Katz watched her go with something like paternal pride. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Many youngsters from the detention home, when their dates came up, went off to the reform school. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. Alarm clock that goes off sometimes. Just turning it off.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I signal left to turn onto our street, and the sound of the blinker makes me feel like a friggin’ bomb is about to go off. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He waves and walks forward, shaking hands and apologizing that Sharon’s gone off to the market. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Dimple stared at herself as Celia stood off to the side, smiling like a proud mom watching her kid go off to prom. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She went off to scan and send it, and Ana and I were alone in the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z As much as we needed to go off and have our California adventure, it was nice to be back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men went off to hunt and came back with meat to roast. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard what sounded like a buzzer going off somewhere far away, and suddenly it occurred to me what was happening. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Mom is a bomb, just waiting to go off. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z No time to even get out of the back door and go off on his own somehow, somewhere she’d never find him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “And why would he go off and do that?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The first warning siren went off in the morning while we were at breakfast, but we paid no attention, because it only meant that the planes were crossing the coast. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Before a publicized criminal goes off to face the firing squad, Batalla Hall broadcasts footage of them to all the JumboTrons in the square. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z You can go off with your friends if you want to.’ All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z An Army photographer took some photographs for the action file, and as the flash went off she thought, God, I would be wearing a hair cap. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Templeton had quit work and gone off somewhere on an errand. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Cohn had been talking about the two of us going off somewhere on a weekend trip. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z As soon as the timer on the microwave went off, Calista walked into the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Twenty thousand swords and spears had gone off to war with Robb, or near enough to make no matter, but only two in ten were coming back, and most of those were Dreadfort men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Georgie still slept quietly, but Nero had gone off into the dark to hunt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Why? Doesn’t it take an electrical charge or something to make it go off?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Mom loves us so much, she wouldn’t go off and leave us like this if it weren’t incredibly, terribly important, Emma told herself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Some days he goes off alone, riding his bike in the hills, looking for our dog. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “If you don’t want me, you only jus’ got to say so, and I’ll go off in those hills right there—right up in those hills and live by myself. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked into the butterfly garden while Tilly went off to do her business, and spied a big toad making his way down the brick pathway in the moonlight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z When somebody had gone off to fetch Wat, Robin said, “You had better talk to him yourself.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t disappear till the gun went off. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Anger surged inside Thomas—and worry that Alby would go off like Ben had. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If he kept his hands thus busy, he couldn’t grab the horn if he felt himself going off. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked back down the hill together, watched as the old chapel was locked up once more and the police and Scarlett and her parents went off into the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I pretend the third one went off on a fantastic journey somewhere, but I know better because I’ve read all about the nestling stage and I know how tough life can be for baby birds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “But the alarm didn’t go off,” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On this day in August, the grocery-store trip went off without confrontation, and she picked up her girls. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Daddy is bringing you copies this morning, so I am sending this note over with him before I go off to school. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Every day when the older children went off to school, I asked to go as well. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z With hands clasped over his heart, Tommy feigned a swoon; then, leaping like the Frog Prince, he went off to entertain his older fans behind the lunch counter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Gunshots went off every night, and we’d always try to guess what kind of gun it was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When I turn around and the dog sees me coming, he goes off into the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like he does every year, Volpe worries about the seniors who are about to go off on their own and away from his day-to-day reach—all but Wayne, who invites no worry. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Your alarm’s gone off again,” one of the cops told Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z These animals, who had kind hearts, were saddened and they went off into the bush and told the other animals about what had happened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She wanted to tell the old woman to let her be, to go off and hunt, her favorite occupation. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And with that in mind, I went off to find my friend Bill and complete our walk. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Our sisters will mind their children and scrub their floors unless they go off to England, too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Harry and Hermione laughed, and, feeling slightly more cheerful, went off to lunch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She kissed me swiftly, patting my shoulder at the same time, and then went off to find Giles in the supper-room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She parks me on a bench near a scrawny elm tree, where I feel strangely invisible as she goes off to fetch two mandarin chicken salads. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z My feet clomped over the same worn boards boys did somersaults on before they went off to the First World War to be gassed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z On Saturday morning I woke up before my alarm went off, and jumped out of bed like I had springs under my feet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “They still here. You the one went off.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Laurie went off two stairs at a time, and Jo laid her wearied head down on Beth’s little brown hood, which no one had thought of moving from the table where she left it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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