Sentence examples for set off racial from inspiring English sources

The videotaped beating of the 25-year-old black motorist had already set off racial tensions nationwide.

Murphy spent most of the lunch talking about how worried he was that the civil-rights movement, which was at its peak, would set off racial violence in New York, but toward the end Rosenthal asked him about a curious case, then being covered in the tabloids, in which two men had confessed to the same murder.

The attack took place mere blocks from the site of the assault in 1986 that set off a racial fury.

We set off.

Then we set off.

The boat set off.

Eventually, we set off.

She nodded; they set off.

Then I set off.

So I set off.

I set off.