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
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
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.
And set afoot a new crop of rumors.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
