Sentence examples for set off word from inspiring English sources

The week that Brayan and Robinson set off, word reached Jalapa of two teen-age brothers who had departed from a small farming town there to reach their parents, in Virginia.

The contact set off words between Paul and Richard Jefferson, who received technical fouls.

If punctuation were logical, we wouldn't use quotation marks to set off "words as words" like "fella" anyway.

I have a degree in economics, and a bit of English, and I'd learned a few Italian words before we set off.

The exodus was set off when word came that Serbian forces were advancing, she said.

Um, do you realize the quotes don't set off the word fresh, but rather imply, as fingerquotes would, that the fish really ain't all that fresh?

We set off.

Then we set off.

Eventually, we set off.

The boat set off.

Set off.