VOYAGE in a Sentence

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For VOYAGE, below is one of 114 sentences:
The figurehead embodied the spirit of a ship and was originally believed to placate the gods of the sea and ensure a safe voyage.

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 Meanings and Examples of VOYAGE
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voyage
 n.  long journey to a foreign or distant place, especially by sea; aviation
Classic Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
1  If, then, you take after him, your voyage will not be fruitless, but unless you have the blood of Ulysses and of Penelope in your veins I see no likelihood of your succeeding.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
2  As for your voyage, it shall not be long delayed; your father was such an old friend of mine that I will find you a ship, and will come with you myself.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
3  Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
4  Then they took out the presents which Minerva had persuaded the Phaeacians to give him when he was setting out on his voyage homewards.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIII
5  My friends," said he, "this voyage of Telemachus's is a very serious matter; we had made sure that it would come to nothing.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
6  He sent me with a band of roving robbers to Egypt; it was a long voyage and I was undone by it.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
7  Thither presently came also his son, returning from a voyage to Pylos, and the two came to the town when they had hatched their plot for our destruction.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
8  After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
9  I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
10  But my account of this voyage must be referred to the Second Part of my Travels.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
11  I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
12  Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the reader with a journal of it.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
13  The author sets out on his third voyage.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
14  I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
15  It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and a half.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence:
1  His voyage of self-discovery was viewed by millions around the world on his website and he now plans to publish a book about his experiences.
2  The ship will start its maiden voyage next Monday.
3  The figurehead embodied the spirit of a ship and was originally believed to placate the gods of the sea and ensure a safe voyage.
4  The freight for the voyage must not exceedï¿¡500 with five per cent. primage.
5  To tour Sri Lanka is to take a voyage of discovery through a land of endless variety.
6  The young couple decided to start their voyage immediately.
7  The voyage from England to India used to take six months.
8  The Greenpeace flagship is voyaging through the Arctic cold of the Barents Sea.
9  Though some Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower favored the establishment of a theocracy in New England, many of their fellow voyagers preferred a nonreligious form of government.