How to Use set (someone) right/straight in a Sentence

set (someone) right/straight

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  • Làng Chài, the restaurant, is set right on the gossamer-fine sands.
    — Travel, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Book a room at Kachi Lodge, which is set right on the flat, for a very special stay.
    — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The world has gone hysterical over A.I. and had to be set straight.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 29 June 2023
  • And Just Like That, why not dive into some of the best travel movies out there, many of which are set right here in the West.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • The groove-heavy band delighted the crowd, many of who were there to see Stevie Nicks’ set right after.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The most common cause of new installation failure is when one emitter is set right at the base of the main stem and nowhere else.
    — Lynlee Austell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Dungeness is always on the menu at the Alderbrook, set right on Washington’s Hood Canal.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Mistakes could be corrected, wrongs could be set right.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • One wrong move—an emergency brake not set right, Fluffy shifting her weight just so—and the vehicle could have crashed into the ravine.
    — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
  • On March 29th, after six days of blocking a vital trade route, the skyscraper-size ship was set right and sailed north under its own power.
    — The Economist, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Young wants a certain tone to be set right from Carolina’s first training-camp workout.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 25 July 2023
  • After making par on 18, Schauffele gave a small nod to his caddie and to the crowd before calmly walking off the course, eyes set straight on the weekend.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
  • Games functioned as a salve: little worlds where everything could be ordered and, with time and effort, set right.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Moving from the primary wing of the home, there’s an additional room that could be used as an office, and a living area set right at the entrance to the home.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The crowd was seated like at an old nightclub, with round tables set right up to the stage, which had a long runway jutting into the audience.
    — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
  • Edgewood is the only luxury South Lake Tahoe resort set right on the beach, and offers an out-of-the-ordinary escape.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023
  • The area also has a distinctly more summery feeling than the rest of the town — set right on the Long Island Sound, most houses look out onto beaches, bluffs, and salt marshes.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Even the rediscovery of an artifact as provocative as the Clotilda didn’t guarantee that would be set straight.
    — al, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There seems to have been some confusion as to which patty-flipping yellow sponge has reportedly stolen Ariana Grande’s heart — and now the record has been set straight.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 July 2023
  • Then Austin is one of the great cities in America, and the festival is set right in the middle of the city, making for a wonderfully scenic and memorable experience.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • This place of succor is an extensive archaeological site now, and there is an ancient theater set right in the middle of it.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The magic continues even in bathrooms, where oversized freestanding tubs are set right against windows.
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
  • Even if he had been wronged by being deprived of knowledge about his biological kin when growing up, that wrong wouldn’t be set right by supplying the knowledge now.
    — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The tone is set right from the start when little Verónica (Llum Arqués) does an in-class presentation about how devil worshippers are involved in child organ trafficking.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 15 Aug. 2021
  • And instead of offering viewers the empty comforts of a world set right within half an hour, her priority is the truth, to the extent that such a standard can be applied to fictional characters.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in downtown Sarasota, is a relaxing, tranquil place set right on the water.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • And despite the soggy weather at Copenhagen Fashion Week, the flats were everywhere–further evidence of their popularity among the fashion set right now.
    — Emily Chan, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And the precedents of CGM usage that companies, researchers, doctors and patients set right now could hold future implications far beyond one person or product.
    — AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For those wondering, Bajos’ nanny gets set straight about the differences between gasoline and petroleum jelly.
    — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Situated on eight acres of tropical gardens, Rockhouse Hotel on Negril's west side features an on-site restaurant serving traditional Jamaican dishes, a spa set right on the beach, and an infinity pool.
    — Michelle Gross, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023

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