Sentence examples for set out to finish from inspiring English sources

More than 20 years after Chambliss was convicted, Jones would become U.S. attorney in Alabama and set out to finish what Baxley started.

When we set out to finish our Christmas shopping, the bitter cold prompted us to put on an old chesterfield that we hadn't worn for years.

Channeling the courage of famed polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who was forced to turn around during the 1915 expedition that Worsley set out to finish a century later, Worsley called Antarctic Logistics and Explorations to request a rescue.

After Ebb's death, Mr. Kander set out to finish their last collaboration, "The Scottsboro Boys" (which ran briefly on Broadway in 2010), but also began thinking about a new project: a musical one-act for a handful of actors that would be so intimate it could be performed in his living room.

The only items the store couldn't provide were a shirt with a size 19 neck and a pair of size 17 shoes, but LaBarre had already called around to find stores that did carry them, and she and the two singers set out to finish shopping.

"While I was there, partly to fill the time and partly to give her a last opportunity to mother me, even though I had become her caretaker, we pulled out her unfinished needlework projects and I set out to finish them".

The new Fed chair has no reliable partner in the White House or on Capitol Hill as he sets out to finish the job that Janet Yellen started.

The new chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has no reliable partner in the White House or on Capitol Hill as he sets out to finish the job that his predecessor, Janet Yellen, started.

By John Cassidy February 27, 2018 The new chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has no reliable partner in the White House or on Capitol Hill as he sets out to finish the job that his predecessor, Janet Yellen, started.

García Márquez -- his mind on his writing, his stomach rumbling from hunger -- turns the page on the event as he might turn the page of a book and sets out to finish lunch.

As the election results rolled in, Emma McIlroy, CEO and cofounder, wondered if the feminist empire she'd set out to build was finished.