setting against
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Seattle necessarily wasn’t off-track last Sunday in a 17-13 defeat at Cincinnati, going toe-to-toe in a tough setting against a team that has two consecutive AFC Conference title-game appearances.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
The film balances a small-town Ireland setting against big themes, crackling humour against aching pathos and casual violence against an empathetic core.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2019
"I definitely do stuff that I want to work on in a game setting against live bullets," he said.
From US News ● Aug. 17, 2016
Like Salinger’s own dangling men—Holden Caulfield, Buddy and Seymour Glass—Merton set himself against phonies as a way of setting against phoniness in himself.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2015
In 1902, the grandest of them all, the Mount Washington Hotel, opened at Bretton Woods, in an open, meadowy setting against the backdrop of the Presidential Range.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
