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setting sail

VERB

get started on trip

Synonyms

WEAK

dive in go ahead set out start out

Example Sentences

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For all of his bravado about setting sail for home, even Victor wonders what he would be going home to.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

The international flotilla of some 100 boats, mostly setting sail from Barcelona on April 12, will head towards Gaza around April 20, according to the organisers.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Now, with tourism as this Indian Ocean country’s largest commodity, resort guests are setting sail into the turquoise waters with fishing rods in hand.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Nick told us he would carefully plan his trips to France around favourable tides and weather conditions - setting sail from Kent after dark.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

In July 1786, almost a year after setting sail, he reached the coast of Alaska, a place now called Lituya Bay.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan