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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

Which is how I found myself setting sail one fine November morning alone, save for 600-odd silver-haired strangers.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

While this season has mostly taken place in Wisconsin, the three finalists are setting sail on a cruise ship from Curacao, with Caribbean themed challenges on deck.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

One of Galileo’s opponents, Lodovico delle Colombe, complained in 1610/11 that Galileo behaved like someone setting sail on the ocean, heading out past the Pillars of Hercules and crying, ‘Plus ultra!’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton