How to Use fire off in a Sentence

fire off

verb
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  • The launcher fires off a twin pod of the 13-foot PrSMs.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Two crews with them left to try to cut those fires off.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The singer fires off a text to Kanal, and the four bandmates assemble for a Zoom call.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Still, that didn't stop Wethington, who managed to collect the puck and fire off the first goal of the game.
    — Nick Kelly, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • One of the men fired off numerous shots, striking the victim in the head.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • And Burt fires off a text to Padres broadcaster Mark Grant.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And one more boat catches fire off the coast of Los Angeles.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Will some of those fans fire off angry emails to Hartzell or Del Conte?
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Barreiro fired off a shot in the madness, hitting no one.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
  • As bullets whizz by, gusts of air fire off near the side of attendees’ heads.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • That will require Tatum and Brown to keep firing off the dribble and barreling to the rim.
    — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • An officer on the scene fired off a single shot, the release said.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In the first season, Ava fires off a tweet about an anti-gay senator that gets her fired and kicks off the events of the show.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 23 May 2024
  • Pointing their muzzles in the air, soldiers fire off rounds.
    — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The result is that the shooters often have time to fire off rounds and leave the area before the police arrive.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • A couple good swings fired off by JJ and Tyler, but outside of that, we just got beat today.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
  • Solano yelled, according to his body-camera video, and raised his own weapon to fire off five shots.
    — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The short-range ballistic missile was fired off at around 11:05 a.m.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Trump posted about the case online anyway, firing off about the judge.
    — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • From court Tuesday, Trump fired off a series of social media posts about the case.
    — arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Wilcox and Graves described it in interviews as a flippant comment, fired off in the heat of the moment.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Blaster noises from the iconic 1978 shoot-em-up Space Invaders fire off in the background, some of them in reverse.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The celebrations — fired off by tourists and locals — went on.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Maps that help players learn to build a wall, edit a window, and fire off a shot within seconds are a dime a dozen.
    — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Biden may not fire off as many incendiary tweets as Trump.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The first Vulcan rocket fires off its launch pad in Florida.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Last year, a ferry owned by Grimaldi caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on its way to Italy, killing 11 people.
    — Elise Young, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • The adults Danielle played didn’t fire off ground strokes like tennis-academy prodigies.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Another officer then fired off at least one round, shooting the suspect in the left arm.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
  • Vance once fired off on social media about girls rowing in masks on the Potomac River (circa 2021).
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 16 July 2024

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