Sentence examples for ship sets from inspiring English sources

Once all the roles are committed to and filled, then the ship sets sail.

"Det Far Ett Skepp" ("A Ship Sets Out"), a rousing opener by the Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar, reflected a branch in Mr. Blier's family tree.

One lady boasts about the dresses she makes from medical gauze; another rushes to get a final manicure before her ship sets sail.

And when the Phaeacian ship sets Odysseus down at last on the shore of his longed-for Ithaca, there is a low-voiced conversation over his sleeping body that Homer never wrote.

Then the low-frills ship sets across the fabled sea, stopping at the party capital of Mykonos and the Turkish resort of Bodrum, before cruising to the relic-rich Greek islands of Kos, Rhodes, Crete and Syros.

Then the ship sets off from Southampton, sure of itself, unsinkable, until it comes to the ice fields of the North Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland — and speeds right on through them to its anchorage, here in New York.

At approximately 1 30 pm the ship set sail for New York City.

The ship set out for Haiti Tuesday evening.

"To the lifeboats!" exclaims the captain of one sinking ship, setting the frenetic tone very early.

It is, say the rabbis, comparable to a ship setting out on a long ocean voyage.

As many as 70,000 people gathered to watch the Cunard Line ship set sail.