Sentence examples for preparing to sail from inspiring English sources

Gove is now preparing to sail back into these politically dangerous waters, with a scheme borrowed from Sweden.

Military officials said the carrier George Washington had been preparing to sail from its port in Japan to join the Japanese Navy in an exercise to begin Dec. 3.

Then, with the wedding guests following behind, we sped down the West Side Highway beside the sparkling Hudson under a brilliant wind-swept sky to the pier where the stately old Ile de France was preparing to sail at noon.

At the end of December, the Noble Corporation, the Swiss company that owns the 512-foot-long drill ship and is leasing it to Shell for $240,000 a day, said that many of the problems had been repaired and that the ship was preparing to sail to Seattle to fix the remainder of them.

Last week, the Noble Corporation, the Swiss company that owns the 512-foot-long drillship and is leasing it to Shell for $240,000 a day, said that many of the problems had been repaired and that the ship was preparing to sail to Seattle to fix the remainder of them.

At the time of Ohioans grounding, Lowry was in San Diego, preparing to sail to Acapulco.

The offended goddess bid the winds be still, thus becalming Agamemnon's fleet as it prepared to sail for Troy.

"Lots of talk about submarines, torpedoes and sudden death," Alfred Vanderbilt told a reporter as the Lusitania, on which he was a passenger, prepared to sail from New York, in 1915.

The narrator in the Russian voice-over said Mr. Sutyagin provided Captain Brannon with a description of the armaments on board the ship as it prepared to sail for the Balkans during NATO's 1999 military campaign.

As he prepares to sail off into the sunset (literally – he has taken delivery of a 54ft yacht and plans to cross the Atlantic), Parker, 63, could never have imagined such a perfect end to his stretch at the corporate helm.

Jonah Fisher reports from onboard the ship as it prepares to sail.