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set sail

vb. To depart on a voyage by boat.

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Set Sail (The Movement album)

Set Sail is The Movement's second studio album, produced by Chris DiBeneditto at Philadelphonic Studios in Philadelphia, PA and released on October 25, 2008. This album features artists such as Garrett "G. Love" Dutton and Mark Boyce of G. Love & Special Sauce, Chuck Treece, and Oguer Ocon of Slightly Stoopid.

Set Sail

Set Sail may refer to:

  • Set Sail (The Movement album), 2008
  • Set Sail (Anchoress album), 2011

Usage examples of "set sail".

The first mate walked down the beach to their dwelling and told them they were about to set sail.

What seems most singular and suggestively important in this story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.

With a full crew once more, two to a halyard and one to spare, not counting the Admiral and William, the Teasel set sail in record time, while Mr Whittle and Mr Hawkins, smoking their pipes, watched from the deck of the Welcome at the other side of the river.

I must prepare everything, then bring him in and lash him well and step the mast and set sail for home.

In Ramage's Diamond, his seventh recorded adventure, Captain Ramage is ordered to set sail for Diamond Rock, off the West Indian island of Martinique, to make sure that the French do not get ships or supplies through to Fort Royal.

We had scarcely got up a new fore-topmast and set sail again, when the Naiad, who had exchanged numbers with me, passed the schooner without taking possession of her, and was very soon not a mile from us.

Graves in the boat, but in ten minutes they had cast off, rowed out a little, and set sail to catch the land breeze generated by the differential twilight cooling of water and brick.

The flames leaped twice as high as the masts and the other ships, fearing the firebrands that must be spewed when her magazines exploded, set sail to move away from her, though some British ships, knowing what horrors the crew of the burning ship endured, sent small boats to pluck them to safety.