Sentence examples for setting off the night from inspiring English sources

Before the Speyers could be notified, however, the selection had to go to the MetLife board, which met on the 57th floor at 200 Park Avenue and approved the sale — setting off the night of bargaining over the fine points.

It looks like it always looks this time of year: stuffed with people, silk banners that say either "Calle Abajo" or "Calle Arriba" hanging from second-floor balconies, venders on street corners, paper remnants of firecrackers that were set off the night before scattered on the ground like leaves.

After confidently setting off the next morning, the BBC crew was stopped half way to Mopti at a military roadblock.

Setting off the paper lanterns into the night sky is seen as an addendum to bring good luck.

So, we set off the next morning, pigless and fancy free.

Helmets and lifejackets secured, we set off the next morning searching for adrenalin.

Her smile was so infectious that before she set off the next morning, a fellow hiker, Dottie Rust, asked to take her picture.

The sorrowful widower, unable to bear the thoughts of a single state, set off the next morning, and was married to a woman at Linton.

It's with some trepidation I set off the next morning on a sightseeing tour: I've been warned to dress as though I'm going to be splattered in manure.

Maggie and I set off the next morning in a driving rain.

Each side accused the other of setting off the fighting, which began Friday evening and continued through Saturday morning, and involved mortars, grenade launchers and small-arms fire.