Sentence examples for boats set off from inspiring English sources

Mr. Newick waited until the bigger traditional boats set off, and then tagged along.

Two boats set off to search for the injured and the dead.

Twenty-three boatsetet off Nov. 9 from here, on the west coast of France.

Boats set off across the Mediterranean in unprecedented numbers, carrying Egyptians, Tunisians, and any dark-skinned stranger suspected of being among Qaddafi's foreign mercenaries.

A final line-up of a record 318 boats set off from Cowes on Sunday – two were dismasted early in the fresh westerly - heading for the Fastnet lighthouse and rock off the tip of south-west Ireland.

Such was the pre-match excitement an entire fleet of boats set off across the River Plate from Buenos Aires, leaving a quayside crowd screaming "Argentina si! Uruguay no! Victory or death!".

Hundreds pack into small boats, setting off from Turkey or Libya, hoping to be picked up by European coast guard vessels and dropped off in Greece or Italy.

We didn't fish, just sailed as the sun rose, watched other fishing boats setting off and chatted about the fisherman's life.

At 8 P.M. on May 10th, as the helicopters were leaving La Ceiba, the boat set off for Ahuas with thirteen passengers.

Once the boat set off, the actual party was grim: the weather was awful, people were speeding their brains out, the Sex Pistols were grumpy.

"There are only two ways into the lagoons," Olay had said as our group's motorised escort boat set off into Phang Nga bay from Phuket's Ao Por Pier, "by boat or by helicopter, and I'm afraid we don't have a helicopter".