Meanings of scatter off in English

The men began to scatter off the road, but the planes ignored us.

You can't really see lasers from the side unless they scatter off something like dust.

The walls glint gold in the late afternoon, as waves or particles of light scatter off the ancient bricks.

As they pass through the body of the patient, they will scatter off molecules, leaving their energy behind, and damaging everything as they go.

It was but a little way from the park gate, and I stood there to see the crowd scatter off in that frosty forenoon.

The pedestrians scattered off, yowling as the cars exchanged fire.

This resolution was carried out; and in pairs the guerilleros scattered off into the wood.

The three of them scattered off, looking to claim the prime places for their bedrolls.

Above her, blue-white light scattered off a crystal chandelier.

We scattered off two or three hundred yards apart.

The cavalry scattered off, and the reconnaissance returned.

Hiro runs back, looks at the dead swimmer in the dim light scattering off the clouds.

I ran my hand over my forearm and a thousand of the rods scattered off into the air.

Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery.

Longitudinally polarized electrons were scattered off a polarized target in which the nuclear polarization was oriented perpendicular to the momentum transfer.

The little gadget draws in air through a sensing chamber, and a LED bulb scatters off the particles in the airstream.