What is "gone off"

Usage examples of "gone off".

But when the emergency had arisen he had gone off to fight for that same society, even as Archie had done.

Our daughter, Ysel, has her own hunter now and has gone off with him to the north.

Disposing of the body took less than fifteen minutes, and by the time he walked back to the car, the alarm on his Casio still hadn't gone off.

A second line of automated stations had gone off the air, which meant the Achuultani’.

A second line of automated stations had gone off the air, which meant the Achuultani's scouts were no more than twenty-five months away.

The goblin had gone off from there to meet his destiny, and that same evening she had departed for Krasnegar to claim her throne.

A couple of hours before, oxygen levels in the city had begun to rise, and no warning lights had gone off.

A fusion bomb had gone off and had found fuel enough in the target area to multiply blast effect a thousandfold with winds of living flame.

Six weeks after their wedding, Shandie had gone off to the wars, and at times now she thought she had forgotten what he looked like.

At length most of the ladies being gone off, one hither, another thither, as they do in such places, leaving Catella and a few others with Ricciardo, he tossed at Catella a light allusion to a certain love of her husband Filippello, which threw her at once into such a fit of jealousy, that she inly burned with a vehement desire to know what Ricciardo meant.

There's not a lot of news from Poland, here in Grantville, so I'm not sure if all these things have gone off on schedule.

They took on the flat, but now they have gone off to a house of their own.

He regaled the company, therefore, with a recital of our finding the dying Lesperon, and of how I had gone off alone, and evidently assumed the name and role of that proscribed rebel, and thus conducted my wooing under sympathy inspiring circumstances at Lavedan.

He had turned a sharp corner on the yellow-brick road and had caught a corner-of-the-eye glimpse of a side of his family he had not known existed when he had gone off to Academy.

Bush Milton had gone off to town and her mother to the house of a neighbor.