Sentence examples for when setting off from inspiring English sources

When setting off to feed on other flying insects, dragonflies manage to snatch their targets in midair more than 95 percent of the time, often wolfishly consuming the fresh meat on the spur without bothering to alight.

The ministry vehicle was traveling behind the minibus carrying civilians, according to witnesses and officials, and the bomber may have gotten the timing wrong when setting off the explosives.

The man who did it was heard to yell "Fire in the hole!" before shooting a rocket-propelled grenade at the building — the same phrase that Crowder used to shout when setting off explosives in the mine shaft.

The man who did it was heard to yell "Fire in the hole!" before shooting a rocket-propelled grenade at the building the same phrase that Crowder used to shout when setting off explosives in the mine shaft.

Like the explorers whose journeys he describes, Garfield is happiest when setting off for uncharted waters and most infectious as a writer when describing things in the first flush of enthusiasm.

The early tumbles were as comical as they were dangerous, of course, and Cilic was not amused as he repeatedly stuttered when setting off to hunt down ground strokes that Murray put wide or dinked short.

They crumble into meaninglessness when set off like a free-standing decree in a self-help book.

The intersections of the curves will produce the outline of the simple divided leaf, when set off on 5 axes, making usually an angle of 45° with each other.

It's also good at keeping cakes perfectly tender, while its acidity – when set off with a pinch of bicarbonate of soda – gives a good rise and light, open crumb.

And it’s all the more luminous when set off against black or some other strong color, just the way lipstick sets off your skin color.

Holes were drilled into support columns of the building and filled with a total of some 60 kg of explosives, which when set off, would destroy the support structure and cause the collapse of the building.