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set sail

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set sail (third-person singular simple present sets sail, present participle setting sail, simple past and past participle set sail)

To depart on a voyage by boat.
We set sail for the Caribbean.

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napoleon Hill

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. Franz Grillparzer

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts. Mary Pope Osborne

Don't set sail on someone else's star. African Proverb

It is good rowing with set sail. Dutch Proverb

Good people have set sail to arrive at such gentleness as cuts like diamonds. Kashmir Proverb

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