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How to use set to in a sentence
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIEach day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONI take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANAll the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTShe set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTGood is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSHe set down as the second the golden rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEHis nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSI shall show how it is possible thus to prolong life to the term set by God.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLORWORDS RELATED TO SET TO
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- battle
- bicker
- break with
- buck
- bump heads
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- feud
- gang up on
- get in one's face
- go one-on-one
- hammer
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- hash
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- hassle
- have at each other
- have at it
- jump
- jump on
- knock around
- lock horns
- mix it up
- pettifog
- pick an argument
- put up a fight
- put up a struggle
- quarrel
- quibble
- rehash
- row
- sass
- set to
- sock it to
- squabble
- stick it to
- talk back
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- disputes
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- jumps on
- knocks around
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- talks back
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- altercating
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- breaking with
- bucking
- bumping heads
- contending
- crossing
- crossing swords
- disagreeing
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- facing down
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- getting in one's face
- going one on one
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- having at each other
- having at it
- jumping
- jumping on
- knocking around
- locking horns
- mixing it up
- pettifoing
- picking an argument
- putting up a fight
- putting up a struggle
- quarrelling
- quibbling
- rehashing
- rowing
- sassing
- setting to
- socking it to
- squabbling
- sticking it to
- talking back
- wrangling
- advances
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- boffs
- bombards
- boots
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- brains
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- charges
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- clips
- clocks
- clubs
- combats
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- jumps
- kicks
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- larrups
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- light into
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- punches
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- storms
- strikes
- takes the offensive
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- wallops
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- address
- apply oneself
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- bend
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- devote oneself to
- exert oneself
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- give
- give oneself over to
- keep close to
- keep one's mind on
- knuckle down
- launch into
- occupy oneself with
- pitch in
- plunge into
- put one's hand to the plow
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- set to
- swing into action
- take the bull by the horns
- throw
- turn
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.