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Setting in sentence

2073 examples of Setting in a sentence

I'm setting it up and I'm setting up, and the light's just about to go, and I want it to be golden, I want it to be beautiful.
So, what can we learn from this? (Laughter) All right, it is not a lesson in the sense of us imitating them or of them setting an example for us to follow.
We started by setting up a hundred eye clinics across the Great Rift Valley, where we met people like Mama Jane and Theresa.
And here's the day that it finally worked: [Video: (Mac Stone narrating) After setting up the platform, I look off and I see a kite coming over the cattails.
The setting for our next exploration using the same design principles was the solar system.
Words, specifically dialogue in a drama setting, are used for many different reasons: to set the mood of the scene, to give some more atmosphere to the setting, and to develop relationships between characters.
But if you dig some more, "fishmonger" means a broker of some type, and in this setting, would mean like a pimp, like Polonius is brokering out his daughter for money, which he is doing for the king's favor.
For instance, if you let your sheep out of a pen to graze, you can keep track of how many went out by setting aside a stone for each one, and putting those stones back one by one when the sheep return, so you know if any are missing without really counting.
Next we'll anchor our setting with the plate.
The bread plate goes up and to the left of the setting, and the butter knife goes on the plate at an angle, again, with the blade pointing in.
The commander who hit the button, setting off the event?
Let's walk through three of today's more prevalent theories, using the same restaurant setting for each.
When you slide the pan into the oven, you're setting off a series of chemical reactions that transform one substance, dough, into another, cookies.
Whether that's a fantasy world or a futuristic setting in the real world, it's important to know where you are and whether you're working in the past, present, or future.
When you have no choice but to sit, try switching the slouch for a straighter spine, and when you don't have to be bound to your seat, aim to move around much more, perhaps by setting a reminder to yourself to get up every half hour.
The waters could be coming from as far away as glaciers in the Andes, then seeping down deep into the earth and coming out to form the boiling river after getting heated up from the geothermal gradient, all due to this unique geologic setting.
But that's just your body setting the scene for some real action.
The famed therapist M. Scott Peck said that true listening requires a setting aside of oneself.
And sometimes that means setting aside your personal opinion.
Regional anesthetics work by setting up an electrical barricade.
It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction while setting the professor up for a long unsupported stretch in the middle.
And because researchers often use a small sample size in a specific setting, it's hard to generalize their results.
Arraigning Christopher would give him a criminal record, making it harder for him to get a job, setting in motion a cycle that defines the failing criminal justice system today.
The pivotal, calamitous day during which the dinosaurs were wiped out, setting the stage for the modern world as we know it didn't have to be.
And then I knew that had to be [the] setting of my book.
First, the barbershop is not a medical setting, and so it doesn't have all the negative psychological baggage that comes along with that.
I mean, you might even assume that they were setting him up, that they were intentionally framing him.
It's a mind setting.
This is one of many firms around the world that specialize in setting up accounts in offshore tax havens like the British Virgin Islands, for rich and powerful people who like to keep secrets.
And within nine years, they were setting all-time performance records and racking up awards, including best place to work.
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