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
Diaghileff nevertheless, by dint of his persistence, wrung a half-hearted consent from him, and, after repeated and laborious rehearsals, the ballet was set afoot and was produced in Paris in the spring.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
Yere be I, the only gent in camp who has actchooal dooties to perform, an' a plot is set afoot behind my back to make me infamous!'
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert
With courage revived, he could go to the Castle now and demand with a high hand that inquiries as to the fate of Terence should be set afoot.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
