set Examples

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Examples of set in a Sentence

Examples of set
1. His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”
2. Now what a-devil has set this hornet's nest of theirs abuzz so suddenly?
3. Ack-acks were set up in the square.
4. So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.
5. 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010 : … if I were a young man I should doubtless be willing to set all Barsoom afire to win you,…
6. Jazz Festival week is a busy one for Alexander: her gigs include a Friday afterfest set at Rosa's with her own band, a Sunday afterfest set at HotHouse with Thompson's Africa Brass, and a Tuesday duet at the Cultural Center with pianist Jeremy Khan.
7. Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;
8. I'm all set to leave for my vacation.
9. We don't need any more food; we're all set.
10. Set in a shallow, amphitheaterlike depression, once a gravel pit supplying material for the Thruway, it covers 11 acres.
Examples of sets
1. In the category of sets, a terminal object is any singleton, since there exists a unique function, namely the constant function, from any given set into that singleton.
2. The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
3. I can't stand his squeaky voice. It always sets my teeth on edge.
4. This contract sets out all the terms of the agreement as we discussed.
5. We live in a society that sets great store by science and technology.
6. Everyday he sets to work at the new assignments.
7. Large-scale projects such as motion-picture production use huge sets with seamless painted walls, cycs, and floors—not to mention a vast array of lights.
8. If you start work on the new assignment now, you'll be ahead of the game for when the teacher sets it officially.
Examples of setten
1. He has setten up shop.
Examples of setting
1. Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.
2. The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids excessive bail, and state bail laws are usually designed to prevent discrimination in setting bail.
3. At the holiday dinner, the hosts had set a favor by each place setting. ‎
4. That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
5. Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
6. Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava.
7. The sails were split, the mainyard shivered, the wind blowing fresh, the night setting in; and all our chance was to make for Corfu--or, as F. pathetically called it, 'a watery grave.'
8. Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.
Examples of most set
1. Aubrey speaks of him as 'incomparable at reparteeing, the bull that was bayted, his witt beinge most sparkling, when most set on and provoked.'