Sentence examples for finally set off from inspiring English sources

That is why Mr. Macron's plans to raise the gasoline tax, modest an increment as it may seem, was the final straw for so many, the spark that finally set off a seething rage that has been building for years.

They finally set off at dawn on the 22nd, with favorable seas but a wretched motor.

When we finally set off, we had three hours to the border.

The police finally set off a bomb in the room inside Mr. Khan's home where the gunman had taken refuge.

When I finally set off from the Arc de Triomphe at 2pm the magnitude of the task hits me.

We finally set off at 7 30am on a Saturday in June for stage 1: London to Dover.

Proceeding with manic determination, he didn't waver even after his ship sank and he and his crew were forced to camp for six months on floes of ice, finally setting off in tiny lifeboats when the currents allowed, and then facing even more adversity after a miraculous landing.

If an atom bomb is the igniter on a fusion explosion, the hormones are what finally sets off the explosion of fundamentalist fervor that turns a quiet young Tunisian into a mass murderer of innocent tourists.

When we finally, reluctantly set off on our journey, we are hungry for more.

And finally I set off to face it, to immerse myself in it.

Finally, it set off a nice contrast between desuetude of their present condition and their pending leap into fame and fortune, provided they don't flush their prospects down the toilet, which is the premise of the story.