Sentence examples for Set back from inspiring English sources

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Set back

verb

To delay or obstruct.

  • I expect it will set us back by a day or so, but I think a side trip will be worthwhile.

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Argentina's collapse has set back these hopes.

Clocks are set back one hour.

Good sense does always set back in".

Civilisation would be set back several centuries.

Sinclair was not really set back personally.

And she set back feminism four decades.

Civil unrest set back production in Nigeria.

But the cause has been set back.

In fact, it set back that effort.

Failure could set back American-led Mars explorations for years.

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Aneurin Bevan received a personal set-back at the conference.

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