Sentence examples for bands set off from inspiring English sources

From their base on the North Carolina edge of the Great Dismal, guerrilla bands set off on regular campaigns into northeastern North Carolina, both to plunder and make good on their explicit pledge to "clear the country of every slave".

But later in that decade, in tune with abstract painting of the time generally, Krasner turned to a more colorful, even gaudy palette, as in the garishly pink and purple "Gaea" (1966), and to more boldly defined forms, as in "Green Fuse" (1968), with its white egg shapes and wide arcing bands set off against a deep blue background and accented by vehement splashes of red and green.

The band set off across the University Heights Bridge-it was a little chilly up there in the open-to the Bronx.

"My lyrics tend to scare people," he said from his Newark apartment earlier this spring, before the band set off on a three-month European tour.

In the middle of 1935, Goodman and the band set off on a cross-country tour, which at first was unsuccessful but in the end was received with overwhelming enthusiasm.

Kevin Beese, the manager of the Station, a popular live-music club that took just minutes to burn to the ground, said the foam covered the walls surrounding the stage where a band set off a pyrotechnic display.

Before the band set off on tour, more bad luck struck: a girlfriend of a record label employee broke her ankle; the tour bus driver called to say he would be late because the bus had already broken down; and Thorgeir Gudmundsson, the band's drummer, could not start his car to meet the band.

In the kitchen Gruff Rhys, the band's singer, is busy making coffee, and discussing the imminent arrival of his third child, due at approximately the time the band set off on a reunion tour after a hiatus of six years.

The band set off on their first UK tour after the EP's release and their "Jake Summers" single was released there through the label, Cool For Cats (sister of Fierce Panda).

A Western period-instrument group jams with a Turkish band, setting off sparks and shedding delightful light on whole musical ages and cultures.

The Coup, "Pick a Bigger Weapon" (Epitaph) — In 2001, the Bay Area hip-hop group made headlines when the original cover image of its album "Party Music" showed the band setting off an explosion of the World Trade Center.