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set foot

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  1. set footverb

    To enter

  2. set footverb

    To step onto

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of set foot in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of set foot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of set foot in a Sentence

  1. David Axelrod:

    He has been around politics for long enough to know that people are always kinder before you set foot on the battlefield than afterwards, people who said they are right behind you are suddenly a good distance back.

  2. Jeff Green:

    I didn't even watch any basketball, six months after the surgery was the first time I set foot on a court.

  3. Nathan Sales:

    As the false caliphate collapsed, we saw ISIS' toxic ideology continue to spread around the globe in 2018, iSIS recognized new regional affiliates in Somalia and in East Asia. Foreign terrorist fighters headed home or traveled to third countries to join ISIS branches there. And homegrown terrorists, people who have never set foot in Syria or Iraq, also carried out attacks.

  4. Patrick Stefano:

    In Philadelphia, at least 18 teachers who never set foot in a classroom last year received over $1.7 million from the school district while performing union work during school hours, another concern is that the district has no knowledge or control over what teachers are doing while on this type of leave — the teachers could be working toward goals that the district believes could be harmful to its operation.

  5. Islam Minister DeAndre Muhammad:

    This city will not have a race war, they say. But we must realize that we were victims of war as soon as the soles of our forefathers' feet set foot on the United States of America, we are casualties of war.


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