set-back in English
a serious setback for the peace process
We do not need windows in walls facing small setbacks to gain light and ventilation.
Remember to provide for a 10-foot setback from property lines and buildings.
Use "set-back" in a sentence
1. The meeting was set back.
2. Don't let this set - back dishearten you.
3. She seemed better until her set back.
4. SU would never recover from this set-back.
5. The house is set back from the road.
6. Financial problems have set back our building programme.
7. Our house is set back from the road.
8. The problems arising in production set back his plan.
9. All their efforts at reform have been set back.
10. The bad weather will set back our building plans.
11. The troops were thoroughly demoralized by this set - back.
12. The titter a major set - back for our diplomacy.
13. Environmental experts said the move would set back further research.
14. A war would inevitably set back the process of reform.
15. The bad weather set back the building programme by several weeks.
16. Work on the new theatre has been set back three months.
17. It could also set back his plans for Middle East peace.
18. This result has set back their chances of winning the competition.
19. Continued geopolitical conflicts and oil price weakness could set back economic growth.
20. This ambition has been seriously set back by China's poisoned milk scandal.
21. There will be a risk of public protest that could set back reforms.
22. He switched the set back on, changing the channel to a news programme.
23. Billy's cottage was set back off the road, behind a neat little hedge.
24. Victorine tells me of a party in a house set back behind a wall.
25. These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.
26. The opening of the new swimming pool has been set back by a few weeks.
27. Set back from the road on quite a steep rise was a new ranch-style house.
28. Does it set back the filter bacteria, denied of the first stage of the nitrogen equation?
29. Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings.
30. It has since set back the timetable for the expressway, proposed for just south of Miramar Road.
31. The Burds: Dave has a professional set back and is forced to spend more time with his parents
32. Next to the hotel is an old colonial mansion, set back on a rise above the rubbish-strewn beach.
33. The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings.
34. However she suffered major set back due to the Battle of Mullaitivu in 1996 and Battle of Kilinochchi in 1998.
35. These advances were then set back in the 17th and early 18th centuries, when publishing in the Ukrainian language was outlawed and prohibited.
36. A drop in commodity prices, steeper-than-anticipated global interest rate increases, and inadequate efforts to ameliorate debt dynamics could set back economic growth.
37. An uphill oriented gradient to help stabilise the wall can be achieved by angled construction, or the stacking of stones that are repeatedly set back from the bottom upwards.
38. English Language Learners Definition of Alcove : a small section of a room that is set back from the rest of it See the full definition for Alcove in the English Language Learners Dictionary
39. Combining the best in British pub hospitality with individuality, character and quirky charm, The Brandling Arms is situated in the centre of Newcastle’s popular Gosforth district, set back from the hustle and bustle of its buzzing High Street.
40. Montenegro's early Composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition
41. Apse: 1 n a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar Synonyms: apsis Types: tribune the Apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne Type of: niche , recess an enclosure that is set back or indented
42. “We are happy seeing our brothers and sisters joining us in today’s Christmas service, and this shows clearly that peace and unity are gradually coming back to the region after series of set back as a result of ethnoreligious, political killing that brought so many Backwardnesses to the entire 19 northern states of the region,” he said.
43. “We are happy seeing our brothers and sisters joining us in today’s Christmas service, and this shows clearly that peace and unity are gradually coming back to the region after series of set back as a result of ethnoreligious, political killing that brought so many Backwardnesses to the entire 19 northern states of the region,” he said.