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Meanings of set in motion in English

Portuguese
lançar
Spanish
poner en movimiento

Get going; give impetus to.

lançar

(For a vehicle) To begin to move.

Synonyms
Examples for "pull away"
Examples for "pull away"
1
It takes them a few minutes to start it, to pull away.
Blackbird
2
For a moment she tried to pull away; then she went still.
The Golem and the Jinni
3
The bulky German tried to pull away but could not break free.
Gladiatrix
4
Please let the bus pull away to reveal her broken, mangled corpse.
Catch and Kill
5
They helped him pull away the heavy cloth covering the new barrel.
American empire: blood and iron
Usage of set in motion in English
1
That set in motion events that caused Cohen's dramatic split with Trump.
Reuters
2
He now needs to meet the expectations he has set in motion.
Reuters
3
So that was the plan that they set in motion in Mariposa.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
4
The pandemic has set in motion an unprecedented experiment in remote work.
Wired
5
It wouldn't change what Palane and Dusek had already set in motion.
Cauldron of Ghosts
6
The engine he had set in motion was now beyond his control.
A Man's Woman
7
The machinery of the municipal health department was promptly set in motion.
Fighting in Flanders
8
But another kind of fight in Congress was fiercely set in motion.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
9
And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
10
The moment I have money, the business shall be set in motion.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
11
That done, the machinery of the law is automatically set in motion.
Alone
12
Protopopov had set in motion forces which no human agency could control.
Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
13
New waves were set in motion by the younger generation of thinkers.
The Constitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881 / Johns Hopkin...
14
And with that, the fate of a legion was set in motion.
Demon: a memoir
15
Men like Koi are hard to stop once they're set in motion.
Woken furies
16
In throwing it back, they set in motion an evolutionary process .
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Translations for set in motion
Portuguese
lançar
Set in motion through the time
Set in motion across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common