setting apart

Example Sentences

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In 1910, a sign was placed at Madison Junction announcing, “Here was first suggested the idea of setting apart this region as a National Park.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022

Also setting apart the Spirit Awards from the many other awards shows is that they give away actual money.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2015

Something else has been setting apart this new restaurant, which only recently moved to its permanent location on Delancey Street.

From Forbes • Nov. 4, 2014

It is polite, formal and at times anachronistic, linguistically setting apart a man who frequently struggles to sell himself to the American electorate.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012

One of the earlier developments of this movement, and one that comes into peculiarly close relations with the Conservation campaign, is the setting apart of a day in each year for planting trees.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress