Example sentences for: embarked

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

  • Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).

  • Yet he has embarked on a quixotic effort to engage Farrakhan and change his mind.

  • A decade later he embarked on a disastrous voyage to Morocco to fight the Moors.

  • It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost "participation rates."

  • La Repubblica of Rome, under the headline "Israel in Alarm," pointed out that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now "embarked substantially on the same path" as his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, the third anniversary of whose assassination is imminent.


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