set apart
Example Sentences
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By the end of her life, Morrison had been set apart as an icon and trailblazer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Everyone involved must reckon with what it means to remain set apart from the rest of the world.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
As an actress, she says "you have to set apart the person that you are and the characters you play on screen".
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024
In Arizona, too, guayule thrives amidst drought, its blue-green leaves set apart from dry dirt at a research and development farm operated by the tire company Bridgestone.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024
He made a face at Omakayas, for with her beadwork she was set apart, another of the women, and Pinch was left to fetch wood all by himself.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
