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Example sentences for "set forth"

  • They not only entered thoroughly into the spirit of my little trip, but more than one declared, if he were rich enough, he would like to set forth on such another.

  • By means of an end of cord I slung it under one arm; and although the cord cut my shoulder, and the jacket hung almost to the ground, it was with a heart greatly lightened that I set forth again.

  • It was already hard upon October before I was ready to set forth, and at the high altitudes over which my road lay there was no Indian summer to be looked for.

  • With a sincerely ingrained trust that the scenes of dignity, opulence, and wisdom, set forth in these superficial letters, are not unsettling your intellect and causing you to yearn for a fuller existence.

  • Thus may this imagination of competitive locusts be set forth to the end.

  • He set forth in haste, accompanied by two squires riding on one horse, a page, and a few varlets running with torches.

  • He must find a more powerful remedy in good flesh and blood, and after this discomfiture, set forth again at once upon his voyage of discovery in quest of love.

  • Here the Fourth of July feast had been held not long before with memorable consequences, yet to be set forth; here we took our meals; here entertained to a dinner the king and notables of Makin.

  • At an early period of the morning his dinner must be set forth on the roof of the house and at a proper distance, full in view but just out of reach; and not until the fit hour, which was the point of noon, would the artificer partake.

  • There they found Mr Pitt turning up his nose at a cold collation, set forth in a cold pomp of glass and silver, and looking more like a dead dinner lying in state than a social refreshment.

  • The pastry-cook has done his duty like a man, though, and a rich breakfast is set forth.

  • The plan he followed in this work, to give it the greatest possible usefulness, is set forth in the Author's Preface.

  • Mandricardo went on to say that he eagerly embraced the proposal, and being provided with horse and armor by the damsel, set forth on his enterprise, the lady accompanying him.

  • Tennyson's poem of "Ulysses" represents the old hero, after his dangers past and nothing left but to stay at home and be happy, growing tired of inaction and resolving to set forth again in quest of new adventures.

  • Then he drew up his troops himself in the order best suited for marching, and, if necessary, for fighting, and so set forth.

  • And the measures that Cyrus instituted to preserve his empire, as set forth in this account, are still the law of the land, maintained by all the kings who followed him.

  • And all we could learn from others about him or felt we might infer for ourselves we will here endeavour to set forth.

  • Meriamun listened to his tale, which he set forth roughly, as if he were some blunt, grumbling swordsman, and darkly she looked on him while she hearkened, and darkly she smiled as she looked.

  • Now the Wanderer is in his chamber, waiting for the hour to set forth to find the Golden Helen.

  • Now this is the tale that I, Rei the Priest, have been bidden to set forth before I lay me down to sleep in my splendid tomb that I have made ready by Thebes.

  • You ask me to give up at a stroke all that makes life desirable: to set forth, without a backward glance, on the very road that leads me farthest from you!

  • To set forth on the road again, after nine years of well-fed monotony, and under conditions so favourable to his physical well-being, was to drink the wine of romance from a golden cup.

  • The sun had hardly risen the next morning when the Duke himself set forth.

  • How different a calling it had been in Saint Francis's day, when hearts inflamed with the new sense of brotherhood had but to set forth on their simple mission of almsgiving and admonition!

  • To relieve the tension of his thoughts he set forth to Gamba the purpose of his visit.

  • And as he set forth, Al-Hayfa said to him, "When thou shalt return to thy people in safety, do thou salute for me my sire and name to him a certain stallion which same he shall largesse to thee and likewise its saddle and bridle.

  • Next she restored to the Ra'is his ship and freighted it with her good and he set forth in it on his return voyage.

  • Said the Wazir, "Hearing and obeying;" and after preparing himself for wayfare he set forth on his way.

  • Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us, 1:2.

  • Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought in before me, and that they should shew me the interpretation of the dream.

  • The exhortations and doctrine it contains are similar to that which is set forth in his Epistle to the Ephesians.

  • Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse: 11:27.

  • According to Tickler, as set forth in these grave articles, no greater outrage had ever been committed upon the unoffending representatives of the United States, and for which he demanded summary vengeance.

  • He found the general engaged over dispatches to his government, and letters to his wife Polly; in both of which he set forth in sad and pitiful sentences, "the dire fate" that awaited him.

  • There is only one class or men who have cause to oppose the proposals which I am about to set forth.

  • Inserted at the earnest request of a friend, who was struck by the coincidence of some ideas, similar to those of this volume, set forth so long ago, but as yet remaining unrealised, and which I had never read.

  • If the Scheme which I set forth in these and the following pages is not applicable to the Thief, the Harlot, the Drunkard, and the Sluggard, it may as well be dismissed without ceremony.

  • Numa himself had eaten and drunk, set forth above a kind of altar, amid a cloud of flowers and incense, and many lights, for the veneration of the credulous or the faithful.

  • But towards dawn he slept heavily; and awaking in broad daylight, and finding Cornelius absent, set forth to seek him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "set forth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bout what; green corn; had reached; play cards; set aside; set fire; set forth; set free; set him; set his; set off; set the; setting aside; setting fire; setting forth; setting machine; setting them; settle down; settled back; settled down; settlement work; settling down; she sat; though what; verdict against; word was