shoot off

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

“It’s not like basketball, where you can kind of shoot off the whistle,” Biddeford, Maine, native Dumoulin said, helpfully throwing in a comparison for non-hockey sports fans.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024

They shoot off the cannons in Reverend Hunt’s honor; a great man has gone to his reward in heaven.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone