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
Singularly blessed, therefore, is 70-year-old President Michael Hainisch of Austria�for last week a movement to re-elect him for a third term was set on foot by his Mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich.
From Time Magazine Archive
The expedition was set on foot in palpable violation of the laws of the United States.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
