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vb. (en-third-person singularset out)
Usage examples of "sets out".
No one really sets out in life with the ambition to be a garbage collector, though this is an important and essential function of civilization.
Economist Steven Levitt sets out to explore such questions, along with some of life's riddles, in Freakonomics, co-authored by Stephen J.
Dorrin sets out the fullers and the hammers, studying the scraps he has already begun to gather and the rod stock.
Fighting his conflicted feelings for Princess Leia, Han sets out on tauntaun to find Luke.
He puts his hands in his pockets and sets out for the boardinghouse.
In this book, Gerry Mander sets out, armed with numerous facts and figures, to demonstrate that he cannot in the least tell the difference between differentiation and dissociation, and, in the main, he succeeds admirably.
Predicting his own death, the wizard Drum Billet sets out to pass on his power and his staff to his (also-predicted) successor, the eighth son of the eighth son.
Then he sets out, not neglecting to give the boy's cap a good hard yank.