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Discover LudwigThe phrase "set off at a run" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone starting to run quickly, often in response to a sudden event or urgency.
Example: "When the alarm went off, she set off at a run to reach the exit before the building was evacuated."
Alternatives: "took off running" or "started running immediately."
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Did you know that in 1969 there were 10,000 illegal abortions?" They did not, but the man – who incidentally has hair down to his shoulder blades – gets the message, whips on his trousers and set off at a run to find a chemist, where he is served by a male with even more hair.
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Cook set off at a clip, driving and cutting nicely to race along at almost a run a ball as he became the youngest man in history to pass 8,000 Test runs.
We set off at a sedate walk.
Eagleton sets off at a cracking pace.
The one time he set off on a run Nathaniel Clyne caught and dispossessed him.
Against Lyon he cracked the ball slightly to the left of mid-off and set off for a run.
The Percy Sutton Harlem 5K Run will set off at 8 30 a.m., followed at 10 a.m. by the NYC Family Health Walk-A-Thon Walk-A-Thon Walk-A-Thonities.
Any kind of loss by a fund can set off a run.
After being dragooned into a footy trip to Ibiza, he set off on a long run at 6 30 each morning.
He sets off for a run, but turns his head to see Amla at short leg scooping up the ball and shape to shy at the stumps.
A group of people are setting off for a run in the crisp, fresh morning air.
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