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
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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
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The world has gone hysterical over A.I. and had to be set straight.
—Rachel Shin, Fortune, 29 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Dungeness is always on the menu at the Alderbrook, set right on Washington’s Hood Canal.
—Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 17 Dec. 2022
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Mistakes could be corrected, wrongs could be set right.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Even the rediscovery of an artifact as provocative as the Clotilda didn’t guarantee that would be set straight.
—al, 6 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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The magic continues even in bathrooms, where oversized freestanding tubs are set right against windows.
—Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in downtown Sarasota, is a relaxing, tranquil place set right on the water.
—Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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For those wondering, Bajos’ nanny gets set straight about the differences between gasoline and petroleum jelly.
—WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
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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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