Sentence examples for setting out to walk from inspiring English sources

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.

One episode saw a girl in high heels improbably setting out to walk from Byker to Whitley Bay, "a blistering 12 miles"; and then there's the "mysteriously mobile church" - a building "immediately recognisable as Durham Cathedral" has been seen 15 miles away as well as in Durham.

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.

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

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.

The year is 1977, and Robyn, aged twenty-six, hasetet out to walk from Alice Springs, in central Australia, to the Indian Ocean, a distance of some seventeen hundred miles.

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.

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

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.