set about's Usage Examples:

Now in the minority, Robert Peel set about assembling a new coalition of forces.

on their heads caps set about with feathers; daggers they had too, and scimitars.

The women consciously set about to adapt Christian Science philosophy to what they felt was a more pragmatic.

Once inside the city walls the Qarmatian army set about massacring the pilgrims, taunting them with verses of the Koran as they did so.

Due to the setup of the junction, the northbound and southbound roadways, both two lanes wide, are initially set about apart.

Doom won the tag team titles and quickly set about defending them against the former champions the Steiners as well the rest of WCW's very talented tag team division.

novel Anne Boleyn (1985) presents a very intelligent Anne as having determinedly set about marrying Henry VIII of England in order to separate England.

Early on, Bute realised the vast wealth that lay in the South Wales coalfields and set about commercially exploiting them through local ironmasters and colliers.

The new school had a temporary home in Bickley for the first term while the three founders set about finding a new permanent site, requiring at least 70 bedrooms and large grounds.

The reason was a revolutionary rotary atomiser, whose potential in aerial work Norman had recognised and set about developing.

set about completing Prokofiev"s Sonata for Solo Cello as a single, performable movement.

Synonyms:

close to, approximately, roughly, more or less, some, just about, or so, around,

Antonyms:

no, all, little, ordinary, go,