Sentences with set up
set up
S s - The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- They took to the streets, setting up roadblocks of burning tyres. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- Setting up the camera can be tricky. [VERB PREPOSITION noun (not pronoun)]
- The mayor's scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan. [VERB PREPOSITION preposition/adverb]
- They married, and set up home in Ramsgate. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- I have my cornflakes and smell the fresh air and the grass and it sets me up for the day. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
- He claimed he had been set up after drugs were discovered at his home. [be VERB-ed PREPOSITION]
- It appears to be an idyllic domestic set-up.
- He was asked to pick somebody up and bring them to a party, not realizing it was a setup.
- The worst part of the set-up is the poor instruction manual.
- To set up a shed
- To set up a wail
- To set up a theory
- The sea air will set you up again
- Set 'em up, Joe!
- I'll set up the next round
- It's a setup
- To set a house on fire.
- To set fire to a house.
- To set a chair back on its feet.
- To set a trap.
- To set the table for dinner.
- He set $7500 as the right amount for the car. The teacher sets a high value on neatness.
- He set the car at $500. She sets neatness at a high value.
- To set spies on a person.
- To set a time limit.
- To set a wedding date.
- To set one's mind at rest; to set a prisoner free.
- To set one's mind to a task.
- To set a good example.
- To set a fast pace.
- I always set my watch by the clock in the library.
- He set the alarm for seven o'clock.
- A bracelet set with pearls.
- To set a child in a highchair.
- To set a flagpole in concrete.
- To set the dial on an oven; to set a micrometer.
- To set nuts well up.
- To set one's course to the south.
- To set an article.
- To set milk with rennet.
- To set the hounds on a trespasser.
- We set them two tricks at four spades. Only perfect defense could set four spades.
- The king set his seal to the decree.
- The sun sets early in winter.
- Long hair sets more easily than short hair.
- This copy sets to forty picas.
- Come in and set a spell.
- A set time; set rules.
- The hall holds a set number of people.
- Set phrases.
- A set smile.
- To be set in one's opinions.
- Is everyone set?
- They were at the starting line and all set to begin.
- When your plane lands in New York, set your watch forward two hours.
- A set of china; a chess set.
- A set of golf clubs; a set of carving knives.
- A set of ideas.
- A set of murderous thieves; the smart set.
- The set of his coat.
- The set of his mind was obvious.
- The set of one's shoulders.
- How much does the beauty parlor charge for a shampoo and set?
- He won the match in straight sets of 6–3, 6–4, 6–4.
- Our being vulnerable made the set even more costly.
- To set a vase on a table.
- Set the baby on his feet.
- We set a supervisor over the new workers.