Sentence examples for boats setting off from inspiring English sources

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.

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!".

Spanish fishing boats set off at about 09 00 BST to protest near the spot where 70 concrete blocks were dropped into the sea to create the artificial reef.

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.