set upon in English

attack, fall upon, provoke

Use "set upon" in a sentence

1. He was set upon by a vicious dog.

2. 9 He was set upon by two masked men.

3. 1 He was set upon by a vicious dog.

4. Attack definition is - to set upon or work against forcefully

5. 10 We were set upon by a band of robbers.

6. 15 I believe the sun should never set upon an argument.

7. Of sticks set upon posts'; evidently the same as the Babracot (? a

8. 12 He is set upon by adversities; but he sings a song.

9. 17 When she had once set upon anything, the family failed before her.

10. 16 Two Ku Klux Klanners set upon him as he was going home.

11. A man was set upon by robbers, beaten, and stripped of his possessions.

12. 14 What was the matter with these women, always set upon this marrying notion?

13. 11 His mind was now set upon the dollar problem; this was grim indeed.

14. 2 We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious.

15. And I shall be an empty ship with no rudder, set upon their endless sea.

16. 24 Shown here is a dolmen, a huge stone slab set upon other huge stones.

17. 13 Still, her heart was set upon having that monster and she couldn't give it up.

18. 18 One was normal except for some wooden dividers which had been set upon its surface.

19. 3 As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.

20. 28 The two boys frantically grabbed rolling pin and the coal shovel and set upon their father.

21. 19 The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.

22. Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.

23. Bearbaiting ( countable and uncountable, plural Bearbaitings ) A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear quotations

24. Twenty-five millions is the most moderate Approximative figure which the valuations of special science have set upon it

25. Margarett set upon the package, tearing at its wrappings, only to find beneath it another carton, then still another.

26. 26 Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator.

27. 4 Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator.

28. 8 Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.

29. 5 Margarett set upon the package, tearing at its wrappings, only to find beneath it another carton, then still another.

30. As verbs the difference between Aggress and assault is that Aggress is to set upon; to attack while assault is

31. 22 Meanwhile, the sheep industry had developed rapidly, and these smaller animals were promptly set upon by both wolves and coyotes.

32. Aggress (third-person singular simple present aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle Aggressed) To set upon; to attack

33. 21 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves.

34. 28 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves.

35. Cannibal Rudy Eugene set upon unwitting Ronaldo Poppo on a Florida freeway, leaving him with only one eye and severe facial injuries

36. Serbian defender Stefan Mitrović pulled the flag down, causing several Albanian players to set upon him in order to retrieve the flag.

37. 6 The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach.

38. Antrims can only be placated by tea and if you anger an Antrim a band of minions will be set upon you

39. Aggress (third-person singular simple present Aggresses, present participle Aggressing, simple past and past participle Aggressed) ( transitive ) To set upon; to attack

40. 7 In a confused situation, the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers.

41. Verb aggress (third-person singular simple present Aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle aggressed) (transitive) To set upon; to attack.

42. I went to confess my love to her, but I was set upon by a bear and an enormous hound who guarded her home.

43. 20 Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men.

44. Set upon a foundation of ocean caliber marine aluminum and crafted by local shipwrights, no detail of design, construction methods, or Artisanship has gone overlooked

45. 26 In 1991 he and his friends defended themselves against some white racist thugs who set upon them for no other reason than their skin colour.

46. Attack definition, to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He Attacked him with his bare hands

47. Professional engineers like David Moore have suggested that the Romans used Corbeling techniques to construct the dome-like a series of smaller and smaller washers set upon each other

48. 23 Last Tuesday, in a separate attack on the same mountain, another rambler was set upon by the cows, suffering wounds in the back of the head, face and arms and legs.

49. 26 Last Tuesday, in a separate attack on the same mountain, another rambler was set upon by the cows, suffering wounds in the back of the head, face and arms and legs.

50. Because they are absolutely set upon the criteria of convergence for reaching the single currency, they want neither to let another penny go to the Community budget, nor to care about their neighbour.