SETTING in a Sentence

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For SETTING, below is one of 276 sentences:
Well, it's made of brick and it's got about the only slate roof in Atlanta and that kept the sparks from setting it afire, I guess.

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 Meanings and Examples of SETTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
setting
 n.  context and environment in which something is set
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  Despair seized him at the thought of her setting out alone to renew the weary quest for work.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Well, it's made of brick and it's got about the only slate roof in Atlanta and that kept the sparks from setting it afire, I guess.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  When she reached the mill the sun was setting and it was later than she cared to be out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not go beyond picturing her usual life in a new setting.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8  She took it in silence, and they moved away, not toward the supper-room, but against the tide which was setting thither.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
10  The row of budding trees, the new brick and limestone house-fronts, the Georgian flat-house with flowerboxes on its balconies, were merged together into the setting of a familiar scene.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  He put it from him with sudden loathing, and setting his lips, addressed himself resolutely to what remained of his task.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
12  We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at least out of the water.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
13  The Pequod's signal was at last responded to by the stranger's setting her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
14  Marija went home, singing out loud all the way, and was just in time to join Ona and her stepmother as they were setting out to go and make inquiry concerning the house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  This was "piece-work," of course; and besides it was made certain that the boy did not idle, by setting the machine to match the highest possible speed of human hands.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
16  More worship the rising than the setting sun.
17  The committee will study the feasibility of setting up a national computer network.
18  I got a flat tyre soon after setting off.
19  This attractive building is particularly notable for its garden setting.
20  Cyprus is the perfect setting for a beach holiday.
21  There was nothing to prevent him setting up in business on the premises.
22  The program gives the students experience in a clinical setting.
23  He has attracted much interest by setting ancient religious texts to music.
24  The interview schedule or questionnaire mean that the researcher is setting limits to what the respondent can say.
25  As previously suggested, a researcher is usually interested in setting up a hypothesis which he really would like to reject.
26  The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.
27  Mr. Skubel has since completed what he describes as a comprehensive two-week training program and is now setting up his franchise in his hometown.
28  I knew that was something that would remain momentous in any setting.
29  Just how much the times have changed could be seen from the setting of this concert.
30  Pretty soon a splendid young man come down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier.