Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "set him"

  • But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

  • Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings.

  • The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

  • Set him to work: for so it is fit for him.

  • It is urgent to set him free to-day, this very evening, at eight o'clock!

  • Now, the soul sees qualifications able to set him quit in the sight of God; qualifications prepared already.

  • Then the landlord of Pohyola Conjured there a dog of Lempo, Set him on the floor before him To destroy the magic rabbit.

  • Minnes in his coach, set him down at the Treasurer's Office in Broad-streete, and I in his coach to White Hall, and there had the good fortune to walk with Sir W.

  • Thence with Cocke and my wife, set him at home, and then we home.

  • And when Dion essayed to speak in his own defense, Dionysius suffered him not; but immediately forced him aboard a boat, which lay there for that purpose, and commanded the sailors to set him ashore on the coast of Italy.

  • But I hope soon to set him at liberty upon bail.

  • Set him to be speaking of my joes, auld Daddie Ratton!

  • Either would be enough to set him on his mettle, for none with whom I had spoken thought that the forced retirement of the queen would last long.

  • Set him in a hut till this affair is ended, and then we will think of what shall be done to him.

  • Set him down in Spokane with three dollars in his jeans and needing to go to Atlanta.

  • But the closer look and a lifted nose wrinkling into the breeze set him right.

  • And I'm his eyes and all his life, and no old bird is ever going to set him thinking I'm not perfectly beautiful.

  • A wise discernment, or else a lucky accident (for he came hurriedly from the soil of his native isle, needing occupation), set him on that side in politics which happened to be making an established current and strong headway.

  • Miss Denham's power of commanding sleep, as he could not, though contrary to custom he tried it on the right side and the left, set him thinking of her.

  • I set him an examination paper to answer, which I'm afraid caused him some labour.

  • The carriage was full of people, who must have heard it, and would be sure to set him down as no end of a milksop and mollycoddle.

  • Illustration: SET HIM TO DRAW WATER, HEW WOOD.

  • So he hustled and harried Garreth, set him to draw water, hew wood and labor harder than any of the grimy and smudgy kitchen knaves.

  • Sir Philip had taken his little nephew in his arms, and, saluting him, set him on his feet again.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "set him" 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:
    cold roast; dearest brother; easy thing; neutral territory; quench fire; said the little lady; seen the; set aside; set down; set fire; set forth; set free; set him; set himself; set his; set off; set the; set them; setting aside; setting forth; settle down; settled down; settled right; social rank; that means; well kept