Sentence examples for setting out to run from inspiring English sources

Philip Roth, in "Our Gang," imagined Richard Nixon setting out to run for office on the votes of the unborn.

Carrying everything they need on their backs, three friends from England are setting out to run 39 marathons across eastern Europe.

In 1928, two young newlyweds vanished after setting out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a bid to make the bride the first woman to negotiate the entire canyon.

Pauline had tried hard to be enough wives, herself, to secure her place in Ernest's life, setting out to run his household so splendidly he needn't concern himself at all.

I didn't set out to run a festival.

Back then, Brenden Leydon, a Stamford resident, set out to run at Greenwich Point Park but was turned back.

Why hasn't Mitt Romney had the campaign that he set out to run?

Nick and Paula Burriesci didn't set out to run a day care center.

What Mr. McCain needs to do is run the sort of campaign Mr. Bush set out to run a year ago.

It would be something of a stretch to claim that I set out to run an executive search firm.

Then came another twelve years with Bloomberg, a technocratic C.E.O. who set out to run the city like a corporation.