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
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 Sinclair, Bertrand W.
Preparations were quickly set afoot in Birmingham to break up his meeting.
From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank
