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
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.
Such inquiries after Creed as they managed to set afoot fetched no return.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
Protest meetings were held, committees appointed, investigations set afoot, politicians visited, and much other more or less useless, although spectacular, running around engaged in.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by Foster, William Z.
