Example sentences for: departing

How can you use “departing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.

  • The Italian newspapers were particularly interested in the mystery of "Luciano Porcari," which, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, is the signature on a letter it received in September, warning that a bomb might be placed aboard an airliner departing from either New York or Los Angeles.

  • Departing from Port Hardy, B.C.

  • (The Witch threatening Dorothy and Toto, before departing from Munchkinland.)

  • FAA air traffic control tapes indicate that at 9:19 the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Herndon ordered controllers to send a cockpit warning to Delta 1989 because, like American 11 and United 175, it was a transcontinental flight departing Boston's Logan Airport.


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