Sentence examples for and quickly set from inspiring English sources

He promised to curb corruption and quickly set about making a public show of his commitment.

They turned on their amplifiers and their fog machines and quickly set off the building's smoke alarm.

Many of the entrepreneurs I met in Nairobi were westerners who saw an opportunity and quickly set up shop.

Another team of lawyers was hired for the conservators and quickly set out to assess the financial damage.

The exchange was recorded on video, and quickly set off a dispute between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns.

They marry, buy a sprawling Victorian house outside London, and quickly set about filling that house with children.

Melmotte is a super-financier, who appears from nowhere and quickly sets about seducing the British establishment.

The protagonist, Gunnar Huttunen, arrives one day at a sleepy, woodsy canton in the province and quickly sets up a shingling service run out of a decrepit mill.

Gilbert could have dealt with Dyer's books as a necessary afterthought, tossing off some titles and quickly setting down to the real business of regret and death and endlessly messy human relationships.

It's a funny moment and quickly sets a certain aspect of the show's tone.

In 1972, he met an Australian artist named Deborah Williams and they quickly set up house together and had a child.