Example sentences for: embarking

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

  • His column takes on the demand being raised in the House of Representatives over the signatures of 40 members that President Clinton obtain authority from Congress for any such venture before embarking upon it.

  • The new arrangements applied not just to couples embarking on matrimony but also to couples who had married under an earlier set of rules.

  • The latest craze is even more astounding: Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, U.S. companies are embarking on deep-water drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico that involve taking oil from fields that lie as much as a mile underwater.

  • According to Vincent Cornell, an associate professor of religion at Duke University, "It's typically used to initiate something, if you're embarking on a situation where you don't know the outcome."

  • Clinton made these remarks before embarking on a campaign fundraising swing through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, made necessary in part by the large number of contributions to the DNC during the last election cycle that had to be returned because they proved questionable.


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