set sail's Usage Examples:

The Angevins set sail around Sicily, by way of the Aeolian Islands and Ustica, then off Trapani and the west end of the island.

9th century document "Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator", Saint Brandon set sail westward from this point in the 6th Century, and traveled across the Atlantic.

olive, bound about with white wool; after which he prayed to the god and set sail.

She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the islands of Huahine.

At the Cape they were eventually transferred to a British warship, , which set sail for England on 5 April 1792.

Agamemnon waits behind, to appease her; Diomedes and Nestor set sail straightaway, and reach home safely; Menelaus sets sail, but encounters a storm, loses most of his ships, lands in Egypt and is delayed there for several years.

Ghadarites who had set sail from North America for India, and passengers disembarking at Indian ports were subjected to the ordinance.

The crew set sail from Oslo on board two whaling ships, the Polarsirkel and Polarbjørn, on.

The next day after Gates and the survivors set sail, as they were moving downstream on the James River, they encountered the remainder of yet another English supply fleet.

He set sail from there on 23 April, bound for New York, and reached the city around 4 July.

Adventure set sail from Halifax on 26 October 1779, in company with the ships Keppel, Royal Briton and Dunmore.

After this restocking, the ships set sail for the straits of Gibraltar.

Synonyms:

journey, travel,

Antonyms:

unearned run, exempt, confine,