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setting sail

vb. (present participle of set sail English)

Usage examples of "setting sail".

Half an hour later the Triton's boat was back and it was being hoisted on board, La Merlette began setting sail and getting under way.

Rethnor demanded, appalled by the very idea of setting sail with these creatures aboard.

The Sophie, with her abundance of hands trained in setting sail briskly, ran two miles to the polacre's one in the first quarter of an hour.

I made landfall on the coast of Flora ninety-three days after setting sail, made my way up the coast to the base at Newfell, contacted a person that I had known prior to the Fall and was put in touch with the Freedom Coalition rump of the Council.