Sentence examples for set out to walk from inspiring English sources

One morning I set out to walk right round the car, but gave up about halfway.

Benatar had selected a vegan restaurant for lunch, and we set out to walk there, along the Hudson.

In 1934, the English writer Laurie Lee set out to walk to London from his home in Gloucestershire, in the southwest of England.

Staying in a pension in Kardamyli, I had loftily turned down the offer of a lift to our lunch appointment, and set out to walk with rudimentary directions.

One evening last week a group of people set out to walk along a disused railway in Jerusalem, now a pleasant path through the south of the city.

In May 1904, after mastering the rules of 19th-century sculpture at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, Brancusi set out to walk from Romania to Paris.

He sets out to walk to his hometown, Basel, but turns back.

Setting out to walk the long seafront from Southsea in the east to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in central Portsmouth, I was ambushed by the Royal Marines Museum before I'd properly set off.

At different times of day you might bump into his neighbours returning home with groceries, setting out to walk their dogs, children on deck doing homework, retirees shooting the breeze.

In Gairloch, the Mountain Coffee Company was abuzz with travellers and from our romantic balconied room (no 10) at the Old Inn, we watched the river meet the sea before setting out to walk those beaches and feel things fall into perspective.

A better book, for instance, might have omitted "1.7 to Tennessee," a slightly contrived story about an eighty-nine-year-old woman whose son had died in Vietnam, and who sets out to walk the 1.7 miles from her house to the post office, with an antiwar protest letter for President George W. Bush.