Synonym: approach, attempt, begin, commence, get, get down, go about, set out, start, start out, undertake. Similar words: get about, forget about, just about, about, go about, come about, know about, care about. Meaning: v. 1. begin to deal with 2. enter upon an activity or enterprise 3. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
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121) With single-minded purpose and consummate skill, Morel set about organizing a movement.
122) He set about raising all army of his own to win back the lands lost in the recent campaign.
123) It is hardly surprising that, after what he had witnessed, he should set about some slaughter of his own.
124) Gough set about the task of survival by fending off the hat-trick ball.
125) His back was pushed against the wall as a youth set about him.
126) Thus Blacks became a prime source of hostility for white unionists who set about erecting discriminatory barriers.
127) Dole has eyeballed the nation[sentencedict.com], spotted one of our singular needs and has set about putting the matter right.
128) This news he took to Admetus, who at once set about finding a substitute for himself.
129) Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck.
130) Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.
131) He set about reshaping the Canterbury community with great vigour and clarity of aim.
132) In July 1583 he escaped to St Andrews, and set about destroying his tormentors or pardoning some in return for abject submission.
133) The new government set about reversing previous policies, not least of which was agrarian reform.
134) Nevertheless, he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern.
135) They set about loosening the ropes just enough for them to be able to reach the knot once Graham gave the signal.
136) After supper Mary set about clearing the table.
137) The new government set about reversing previous policies.
138) He set about his adversary in strong language.
139) He then set about campaigning, giving talks and fund-raising.
140) With this approach I then set about wrapping my foot in tracing paper, then binding it up in masking tape and then drawings various geometries onto and over the form of my foot.
141) Simner and Ward (2006) set about inducing TOT states in the lab by showing 6 participants with this rare form of synaesthesia pictures of unusual objects, such as a platypus.
142) We set about inoculating the logs with shiitake mushroom plugs.
143) They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.
144) The buck drew a newspaper from his pocket and set about perusing it very diligently.
145) Driven by a desire to learn, he set out to study ( set about studying ) applied science .
146) It would have been inconceivably dangerous even if he had known how to set about doing it.
147) Abbott Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) disagreed, and set about disproving Needham and Buffon's results.
148) To prove his contention, he and his colleagues set about building a circuit that would, like the slime mould, learn and predict future signals.
149) Then, in the fall and winter of 2008, they set about building the full-scale re-creation at a restricted-access Northrop Grumman testing facility in California's Mojave Desert.
150) For one thing, he has set about crafting an Asian trade bloc, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that doesn't include China.
More similar words: get about, forget about, just about, about, go about, come about, know about, care about, abound in, bring about, vegetable, set apart, set aside, inquire about, complain about, on the table, rub out, set, bounce, table, set up, asset, set out, upset, set off, labor, boundary, settle, set down, closet.