Sentence examples for a boat set from inspiring English sources

He ended with "Return to Richardson, Spring 1981," which looks back fondly and sadly on the homestead period, when "our life like a boat set loose," and evenings were spent reading books since forgotten: In this restless air I know On this ground I can never forget Where will I set my foot With so much passion again.

On September 6 last year, a boat set off from Damietta in Egypt for Malta.

This was a proper Viking funeral, as many took place on burning pyres later covered with dirt, without a boat set out to sea.

If you're fishing from a boat, set up near an area with plenty of vegetation to see if trout might be hiding under the smaller schools of fish.

When hunting out of a boat, set your decoys all around it, but you need to be careful not to get your engine caught in any of the lines.

A hundred years after Seton, another visitor wrote that "even today a boat setting out for St. Kilda is by no means assured of reaching its destination".

In four panels, a page shows her writing a note in her hotel room; staring at the moon with arms crossed; a close-up of the note ("Dearest, sorry we fought about nothing"); and a boat setting off to sea.

View of the Sea at Scheveningen, a small picture measuring about 13 inches (33cm) high by 20 inches wide, of a boat setting off into a stormy sea, was painted in two days in 1882.

With tremendous imaginative sympathy, Ross brings the Sheppards' mid-century, comfortably Middle American milieu to life, evoking both its casual beauties — "When the wind rustled the leaves by their second-story window, it felt as if their house was a boat setting sail" — and the fissures that lay beneath.

The trip goes like this: travel with an experienced captain to bypass a difficult inlet current with a flat-bottom boat; set up camp on top of a moraine with the sea on one side and a protected lagoon in the other; push off to paddle among icebergs and seals basking comfortably and free of predators in the fresh water cove; let the rest fall in.

Last month, nearly 400 people drowned when a leaking wooden boat set sail from Indonesia and sank.