set afoot
Example Sentences
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Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime a semi-serious movement was set afoot in Michigan to recall Governor Dickinson, as an embarrassing if not improper old bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I daresay a man gets little pleasure out of a red sky when he is set afoot in a horseless land.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Let it be said, however, that Condorcet showed himself no pedantic nor fastidious trifler with the tremendous movement which he had contributed to set afoot.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley
The one before that, leaving Dinard at ten-twelve, ran on certain days only, and moreover would hardly have allowed Alec the necessary time in which to stop the various inquiries he had set afoot.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
