Sentence examples for flotilla set off from inspiring English sources
As the flotilla set off downstream, the tide had turned and the challenge for engines or tiring arms was to keep to an absolutely steady four knots an hour – essential to allow so many boats get through the narrow arches of the bridges without causing massive traffic jams.
"Which way to Guantánamo Bay?" he calls out to a Coast Guard vessel, and the little flotilla sets off for Cuba.
(In a sign of how small the circle of Japanese activists is, one of the eight national lawmakers who joined the flotilla, Eriko Yamatani of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, was also part of a recent episode that helped set off the latest battle between South Korea and Japan over their disputed islands).
On Wednesday, her husband Brendan and two young children set off in a dinghy in the River Thames waving an "In" sign to protest a flotilla organized by pro-Brexit campaigners.
Others set off fireworks.
Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip today, killing at least 10 passengers in a pre-dawn raid that set off worldwide condemnation and a diplomatic crisis.
Its transmissibility set off alarms.
