Setting

//ˈsɛtɪŋ//

"Setting" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The sky was fiery with the setting sun.

We watched the sun setting behind the mountains.

Bad weather prevented me from setting out.

Mary is setting by money to go to Japan.

You have to think of the example you're setting. You'll never be able to lead if you don't set an example worth following.

You look like you're having a lot of trouble setting up that web page. Want some help?

The setting of the story is Japan in the late Meiji period.

Jack was caught for setting fire to the house.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

If you watch the sun setting on a warm, damp day, you can see the moisture changing the shape of the sun.

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the setting of the sun

the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris

the volume setting on a television

Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.

Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem

Bach's setting of the Magnificat

the setting sun

As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.

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