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How to use set in motion in a sentence

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We do not know if he intended thus to set in motion the events that subsequently transpired.
But, unbeknown to Noah, Timna has set in motion a chain of events that will drastically affect God's plan.
With a solid billet the billet is pierced by the mandrel as the ram is set in motion.
And leaving the Waratahs set in motion the chain of events that took him to Ireland.
Neville's actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days.
Man has been building bridges since the first rotten tree fell across a stream and set in motion the Neanderthal brain cells.
Gogol came to have his name by accident, but that accident set in motion a series of events that would demarcate the history of a family.
But once the upper floors began to give way, terrible force was set in motion.
This setup allows the wheel to be set in motion once the axle starts to turn.
In response Thieme said wheels have been set in motion to restore the situation.
When Douglas's character smells a rat, the convoluted thriller plot is set in motion.
The whole process is under voluntary control, set in motion when a nerve impulse from the brain tells the muscle to tighten or relax.
For better or for worse, a chain of events has been set in motion by these two that cannot be predicted with any certainty.
But that court appearance set in motion a chain of events which cost him his job, his home and his wife.
Little did Christina know that this would be the day that set in motion a chain of events that would splinter her family.
I am to set in motion a concatenation of events whose end or significance I can in no way envisage.
That set in motion a sequence of events that I don't think I want to re-visit anytime soon.
If the claim is a provable one, then, as soon as the bankruptcy proceeding is set in motion all proceedings to collect on a debt are stayed.
Nor would anybody have set in motion an air-sea rescue exercise over the Aegean within hours of having spirited it away.
Destiny was not to be opposed and the cogwheels that were set in motion could not be stopped, not even by him.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Again a wheel is jacked up and set in motion in a tub of water in which the nuts have been placed.
No behaviorist can possibly show that the air waves set in motion by my vocalization were an indispensable stimulus.
In the school-room there was a planetarium, very neatly finished, set in motion by clock-work.
This fact affords additional evidence of the profound changes set in motion by this proteolytic enzyme.
The machine is now set in motion, and the bulk of the solvent is drawn off.
An end of the carding was then attached to the spindle and the wheel set in motion.
The revolving figures on horseback are moved by a separate weight, and are set in motion by the freeing of a detent.
The generatrix had to make 1,500 revolutions, and be set in motion by an overshot wheel.
He shouted to the postilion, and the huge, lumbering vehicle was set in motion.
For some reason or other the vasoconstrictor center becomes inactive, and the series of events just described is set in motion.
Bureaucracy, a gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs, was generated in this way.
When Judaea rose up against Rome in 66AD it set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the founding of a whole new capital city.
Over the bed was a punkah, which was immediately set in motion.
As I step down as chairman of the Federal Election Commission, I fear that the regulatory machinery set in motion by Sens.
By doing this, you set in motion the hidden machinery in the wall which turns the hearthstone on a pivot, and discloses the hollow place below.
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