was embarking
- past progressive of embark.
Example Sentences
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Gary Barlow, the lead singer of the U.K. pop group Take That, met Martin when he was embarking on a solo career in the late 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
And yet last month, Pearlman announced he was embarking on an altogether different kind of mission: to write about Orange County politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2025
Meredith Kercher was a 21-year-old student from the University of Leeds who was embarking on a year of study in Perugia, living in a rented flat with Knox and two Italian roommates.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
A good strenuous life that she was embarking in.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
Perhaps most significantly, this great wave of 'rediscovered’ older music was being offered to the public just as modern music was embarking upon a journey towards greater difficulty, confrontation and experimentation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
