Sentence examples for vehicles set off from inspiring English sources

The lieutenant gave everyone instructions and the convoy of vehicles set off.

On an average day, green, heavily armoured vehicles set off to patrol the crucial port city of Kismayo, running the gauntlet of roadside bombs, a deadly tactic imported from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Residents said a column of about 30 French Sagaie armoured vehicles set off on Wednesday toward rebel positions from the town of Niono, 300 km (190 miles) from the capital, Bamako.

The Wildlife Warning System is triggered by highway vehicles, setting off lights, sounds and or odours ahead of the approaching vehicle to frighten away animals.

The owner of the neighboring recreational vehicle set off to patrol its perimeter armed with a bottle of spray cleanser and a rag, touching up hubcaps and brake lights and anything else that might have gathered a faint patina of dust.

One person was killed and four others were seriously injured when an S.U.V. being driven the wrong way on the Tappan Zee Bridge crashed head-on into another vehicle, setting off a pileup and snarling traffic for hours, the police said on Wednesday.

As the vehicle sets off, another pair of stereo cameras and a suite of sensors monitor the rover's progress.

Oumar and the other smugglers put them in their vehicles and set off toward Libya, leaving behind an enormous cloud of dust.

An activist in the town said Isis fighters took their weapons, climbed into their vehicles and set off before dawn last Friday, leaving residents to discover them gone when they awoke.

At 8 a.m. on Thursday, they piled into hulking bomb-resistant vehicles and set off through the streets of a city that once lay at the heart of America's war here, but has now been all but left behind by the military.

They packed up their things, cleaned out their vehicles, and set off through a field to their new quarters.