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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to set back, such as: bog down, decelerate, defeat, detain, embog, and hang-up.
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On the opposite side of the stream, set back about thirty paces from the brink, stood a granite boulder.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSThe Darwood farmhouse set back from the road, among some cedar trees.
THE MYSTERY AT PUTNAM HALLARTHUR M. WINFIELDIn order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERSet back on the middle of two lots, it was, with a cement drive sloping up from the street to the garage backed against the alley.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERShe had finished her polishing and set back the silver, to eye it with a critical and delighted gaze.
COUNTRY NEIGHBORSALICE BROWNA withdrawal became necessary, and at dawn the line was set back as far as the western outskirts of Wulverghem.
YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRESUNKNOWNOne fellow told me we oughtn't to have given the contract to a man without capital to carry him over a set-back.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSSThat was the first set-back, and the next one was ten times worse.
WE TENLYDA FARRINGTON KRAUSThe Set-back at Naples excitable Neapolitan populace forthwith became unmanageable.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONBut no farming nation can suffer great crop losses without being set back financially and starved to where it hurts.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISWORDS RELATED TO SET BACK
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