Sentence for setting | Use setting in a sentence

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• The gem was unworthy of the setting. (1)
• His setting off in such a hurry seems very like it. (4)
• Just as they were setting off, the gentlemen returned. (4)
• Are you staying to stop them setting the house on fire? (8)
• It is as beautiful as the landscape or the setting sun. (19)
• It is as if a setting hen should have to mind the doorbell. (14)
• She whirled away toward the door as if she were setting out. (9)
• To-morrow morning the setting will be new and strange again. (21)
• Straight towards the setting sun steered Cartier and his men. (19)
• My companion threw the shutters open, setting all the flies buzzing. (8)
• Men who, setting their minds upon an object, must have it, breed imps. (10)
• Frank went away, after setting down in the room the lamp he had brought. (9)
• Jolyon received it just as he was setting out to meet her at the Louvre. (8)
• He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country! (8)
• When he says something funny he ducks and seems to be setting to his partner. (10)
• The wind just then setting on them dead from Cologne made the courtiers serious. (10)
• This makes a zigzag joint which is closed by the elastic cement used in setting. (17)
• Living just as he likes, setting an example of devilry to the whole neighbourhood! (8)
• The son once more answered me roughly and inaudibly, and was for setting out again. (2)
• And setting aside for a moment thoughts of an army, we create more valuable citizens. (10)
• At last my aunt Dorothy found the means of setting me at liberty on the road to London. (10)
• Her heart stood up singing like a craven who sees the tide of victory setting toward him. (10)
• Sudden reverse of all that goes before; blind setting forth on a path that leads to where? (8)
• They differed from the Clavichord chiefly in the method of setting the string in vibration. (3)
• This business of setting up fire-stops when the house is being constructed should be known. (17)
• The idlers at once raised a great cry, and setting upon the offender beat him so that he died. (7)
• The sun, near to setting, had found its way through a hole in the blind, and touched her neck. (8)
• Robert thought poor Ted looking like a ghost; Edward thought poor Bob looking like the setting sun. (8)
• A fox was Baba Mustapha in his stratagems, and a wolf in the fierceness of his setting upon Shagpat. (10)
• Setting her down again absolutely for such, whatever it might signify, Mrs. Berry had a virtuous glow. (10)
• Forming no design beyond that of setting his eyes on her, he turned the head of Hippogriff due Westward. (10)
• I raised my foot and saw the boot on it, which accounted for an uneasy sensation setting in through my frame. (10)
• He walked away without saying good-night, and Westover went to bed without the chance of setting himself right. (9)
• The setting up of this defence of course enabled him to put in some evidence that might weigh in that direction. (8)
• And he lay scarcely breathing, looking up at the unmoving branches setting with their darkness the pearls of the sky. (8)
• She saw him oftener than at any other time setting off on the long tramps he took through the woods in the afternoons. (9)
• Some budding lilacs exhaled a scent of lemons; a sandy cat on the coping of a garden wall was basking in the setting sun. (8)
• They both glanced at the case of books; from which the steward-librarian was setting them the example of reading a volume. (9)
• The old century which had seen the plant of individualism flower so wonderfully was setting in a sky orange with coming storms. (8)
• By setting an example of abstinence, and at the same time releasing more tobacco for our men, I felt that I was but doing my duty. (8)
• Devotion; truth, too, and beauty, rare and moving, in its setting of darkness and horror, in that nest of vice and of disorder!… (8)
• Libby got out a pair of heavy oars from the bottom of the boat, and, setting the rowlocks on either side, tugged silently at them. (9)
• From this elevated point we had a noble view of another valley and of the opposite hills flushed with the last rays of the setting sun. (1)
• Had Westover, he wondered, with a purpose to pay him up for it forming itself simultaneously with his question, been setting his mother against him? (9)
• It was while Beauséjour was being surrounded by Monckton and his New Englanders that the other expeditions were setting out for their destinations. (19)
• He perceived now that she required nothing more than the restoration of her personal pride, and setting bright eyes on her, hazarded a bold compliment. (10)
• He perceived now that she required nothing more than the restoration of her personal pride, and setting bright eyes on her, hazarded a bold compliment. (22)
• When setting these linings they should be laid in cement mortar, not in lime mortar, for this disintegrates under the action of gases from burning wood. (17)

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Definition of setting:

• setting, set’ing, n. act of setting: direction of a current of wind: the hardening of plaster: that which holds, as the mounting of a jewel: the mounting of a play, &c., for the stage: act of adapting to music.(0)

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