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
It was to accommodate reports of this growing body of research that the Journal of Parapsychology was set on foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As a result of the new undertakings set on foot by the North-westers and the reawakened Hudson’s Bay Company, both companies entered the Columbia Valley.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison
