Synonym: activate, actuate, blow up, bring out, cancel, depart, detonate, explode, incite, instigate, offset, part, set forth, set out, spark, spark off, start, start out, stir up, take off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip. Similar words: set out, get off, let off, set fire to, get out of, give rise to, face to face, set. Meaning: v. 1. put in motion or move to act 2. leave 3. direct attention to, as if by means of contrast 4. cause to burst with a violent release of energy 5. make up for 6. set in motion or cause to begin 7. provoke or stir up.
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241. He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo.
242. Finally, as the light faded, we set off back to the caravan.
243. When they set off for church he set off for London, driving fast.
244. Miss Logan made indeterminate gestures to the priest, then set off in pursuit of her employer.
245. The bus set off first and we followed on behind in the car.
246. On Wednesday morning she set off for one of the city's most distant suburbs in order to conduct an interview.
247. She set off to walk a mile to the mountain cable car on Wednesday.
248. So with borrowed gear, no harness and a stranger I set off.
249. She dressed quickly, put on rubber boots and a waterproof, and set off along the footpath leading to Benbury Woods.
250. His work done, Nation collected his fee and promptly set off in search of other work, as did any other jobbing writer.
251. I finished my lunch, repacked my back pack, and set off again.
252. The whir of the camera crews set off a media stampede.
253. Wild speculation, low margin requirements and sheer panic triggered the free fall that set off the Great Depression.
254. Putting his hat on, he set off briskly Lay the train tracks after Stuart leaves tomorrow morning.
255. If the engineer does not brake his train, a warning bell is set off, followed by an application of brakes.
256. The geese climbed high above us and set off on their long journey south.
257. At daybreak Miss Logan, now wearing the pistol at her belt, set off down the mountain with the guide.
258. Its architecture consists of round, thatched mud huts set off by straw fences.
259. They banished all visitors or divided them from campers with a wide corridor set off by ropes.
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260. Hollywood was the biggest carnival he had ever seen and he was like a box of fireworks set off all at once.
261. Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions, when cyclists were waiting to set off or just starting to pedal.
262. We set off at ten, collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods.
263. Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight.
264. Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot.
265. That night it freezes hard and next morning after a brief breakfast we thaw out the boat and set off again.
266. As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess, his father rode with him a little way.
267. Alcock and Brown climbed into the cockpit, waved goodbye, to everyone and the Vimy set off.
268. Some police agencies lock anklets on criminal suspects, convicts and parolees that set off an alarm if the person leaves home.
269. The government set off a consumer spending boom last year by deregulating shop hours.
270. He said the explosion appeared not to have been deliberately set off because of the timing.
More similar words: set out, get off, let off, set fire to, get out of, give rise to, face to face, set, asset, set up, upset, set down, closet, settle, see to, let out, get on, get out, setting, set free, set about, set back, set forth, come to, due to, settle for, set aside, set apart, take to, have to.