Sentence examples for sets out to capture from inspiring English sources

"sets out to capture" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express the idea of someone beginning an effort to achieve something. For example, "The detective sets out to capture the thief."

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This program tries to find the source of the problem and tags along as a lion-hunting team sets out to capture an elusive predator.

But in a film which so determinedly sets out to capture the experience of love, that would be an oddly timid omission.

With these muses, Thomas says, she sets out to capture "the exact moment when I sense her satisfaction of taking on a role and representing some aspect of her character through that role".

Without spoiling it for the uninitiated, Kelly sets out to capture the bland but chipper, asinine manner of the Eighties and Nineties US family sitcoms that buzz forever in the background of a generation's childhood.

In the preface to the play, Wilder writes, "Our claim, our hope, our despair are in the minds not in things, not in 'scenery' "; the Stage Manager is there to remind us that what the play sets out to capture is, in Wilder's words, "not verisimilitude but reality".

Mr. Köhler, the son of aid workers, grew up in Zaire, now called Democratic Republic of the Congo, and he sets out to capture his protagonists' tangled senses of alienation and belonging and something even more elusive: the idea of Africa in the European imagination.

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This latter aspect is what Baker has set out to capture in "The Anthologist".

Korman did not precisely set out to capture the divorced-person market, Ms. Welsh explained.

It does not set out to capture and promote those practices that inform, enlighten and inspire.

A century later, two photographers set out to capture the bleak beauty of the remote Scottish landscape.

They've also set out to capture impressionistically Dury's chaotic way of life and his eclectic array of influences.

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