Sentence for set | Use set in a sentence

Sentences for set. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use set in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for set.

• Nesta set him going. (10)
• They are to be new set. (4)
• This set him off again. (10)
• Not a man of her set worth. (10)
• Then Hilary, too, set forth. (8)
• I have set him upon a woman. (10)
• Her face is set the other way. (10)
• Here was work set to his hand. (10)
• Why did he set upon you, my Carlo? (10)
• New ideas were set revolving in her. (10)
• Edward set his brain upon a book of law. (22)
• The squire set his mouth in imitation of her. (10)
• He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress. (4)
• A few remarks very soon set her wildly laughing. (10)
• She got a vase for them, and set it on the table. (9)
• Three bright round tins are set under the window. (8)
• And this set Georgiana at work thinking of Wilfrid. (10)
• Christian went with an odd, set look about her mouth. (8)
• The question set her thinking of the reasons she knew. (10)
• It seemed to set wagging a weariful tongue in a corpse. (10)
• Confess: you would have set eyes on me, and not known me. (10)
• And he smacked himself, and set toward an invisible partner. (10)
• The English set out modestly at first to people the country. (19)
• The sight of it startled him and set his heart beating audibly. (1)
• Mrs. Adister was allowed no time to set the manoeuvre in motion. (10)
• Where are those high ideals with which I set about this business? (16)
• They were signing in the vestry; and general relaxation had set in. (8)
• Things, she knew, often skipped a generation and then set in again. (8)
• Nevertheless, he set his teeth and resolutely advanced to the house. (1)
• I set my life upon my aim when I feel that the object is of true worth. (10)
• You set him up as a politician, to be knocked down, to a dead certainty. (10)
• Her eyes were brown, set well between mild lids, often shadowed, not unwakeful. (10)
• But for all that, my cheeks burned for days, and my teeth set whenever I faced the thought. (16)
• To be set too early, is to take the work out of the hands of the Sculptor who fashions men. (10)
• Why had it come with its arrowy flight and mocking cry to pierce the heart and set it aching? (8)
• Fortune, moreover, the favourer of Nic Sedgett, blew foul whichever the way Robert set his sails. (10)
• It really faced nothing but a high breast of rock, the rear of the building being set into a hill. (1)
• On the large round dining-table is set out a tray with whisky, a syphon, and a silver cigarette-box. (8)
• And the old lady, having put on her bonnet, set forth placidly, unaccompanied by her little white dog. (8)
• He had received letters at Lugano, summoning him home, before he set forth on his present expedition. (10)
• He therefore set his jaw firmly and made its upper angles jut sharply through his clean-shaven cheeks. (9)
• His rigid adherence to the principle set him belabouring his donkey-ribs, as the proper due to himself. (10)
• Robert strode over him, and taking Dahlia by the elbow, walked three paces on, as to set her in motion. (22)
• Alma set her lips primly and turned her head first on one side and then on the other to look at the sketch. (9)
• It set her nature flowing to the mate she had chosen, who was her counsellor, her supporter, and her sword. (10)
• Like old Jolyon, he, too, at the bottom of his heart set the blame of the tragedy down to family interference. (8)
• I shall be at Portsmouth the morning after you receive this, and hope to find you ready to set off for Mansfield. (4)
• An animated discussion upon lyrical poetry was here interrupted by a summons from our host to set out for the town. (6)
• Captain Risk now had his gear well cleared up and the shrouds well set up to stand a run before the ten-knot breeze. (18)
• Bubbles were still rising from her submerged soul, but it was obvious that it would not again set eyes on the horizon. (8)
• The laws against bribery, made by themselves, are set at naught and those of civility and good breeding are forgotten. (7)
• The vice-consul was of a tradition almost as simple, and his longer experience set no very wide interval between them. (9)
• But what I want is to get the physical effect, so to speak-get that sized picture into our page, and set the fashion of it. (9)
• The gunboats, however, blazed away at set intervals all night long, just to make the enemy uncomfortable and break him of his rest. (7)
• The scale as set forth by the Institute of Tokio is from G, second line, treble staff to the A above, F, fifth line, being sharped. (3)
• He had set his heart on going with her, and he attempted eloquence in pleading, but that exposed him to her humour; he was tripped. (10)
• Those were the days of carriages, pairs, coachmen, grooms, and, with her usual promptitude, ordering out the lot, she had set forth. (8)
• Enraged with almost everybody in the world but himself, he set out the next day for the abbey, where his performances have been seen. (4)
• The hair was brushed from her temples, leaving one of those fine reckless outlines which the action of driving, and the pace, admirably set off. (10)
• The sun set, dew began to fall; the river changed, and grew whiter; the sky paled to the colour of an amethyst; shadows lengthened, dissolved slowly. (8)
• His name was printed, but merely in a fashionable notification that carriages took up and set down for his costume Ball, according to certain regulations. (10)

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