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
Nor have specific projects for its realisation been set afoot.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein
In fact, every stranger is looked after sharply with the ever-present fear of horse-thieves and of the possibility of being set afoot by a night-stampede of the stock.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Inquiries, of course, were set afoot about the missing property, but fortunately I was not suspected.
From Ravensdene Court by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)
