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

Preparations were quickly set afoot in Birmingham to break up his meeting.

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank

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 Morley, John

Of the many godly enterprises set afoot for exploration and conquest in New Spain of the sixteenth century, not all have chronicles important enough for the historian to make much of.

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis