set on foot
Example Sentences
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Park rangers received a report of a suspected heatstroke Wednesday afternoon and set on foot to look for Stanback.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
"What that means is that there's nothing to stop the schoolkids in Great Britain today from being amongst the first men and women to set on foot on Mars in the future."
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2015
If this expedition was allowed to round the southern point of Indo-China, this whole chain of disastrous events would be set on foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, "Father of History," who left copious travel memoirs and gave the Atlantic Ocean its name.
From Time Magazine Archive
A close investigation of every matter connected with this mysterious affair was set on foot.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
