The phrase "a kind of set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a category or classification that is not strictly defined, indicating a similarity or resemblance to a set.
Example: "In mathematics, a kind of set can refer to a collection of objects that share certain properties, even if they do not fit into a traditional set definition."
Alternatives: "a type of set" or "a sort of set".
Cruz and, to varying extents, other candidates onstage appeared to view the Middle East as a kind of set for "American Sniper" — a woebegone place of dusty towns crawling with bad guys and not much else.
We're so far into a bizarre, constructed realm that, when the camera pulls back and we see everything as a kind of set, as a TV show which is being filmed, it has a destabilizing effect.
One of modernism's offshoots was a kind of set decorator's futurism, a picturesque sci-fi aesthetic driven by the assumption that… BOOKS lead of two books about Celebration, Florida, the new Disney community: "The Celebration Chronicles" (Ballantine; $25.95), by Andrew Ross; "Celebration, U.S.A".
One of modernism's offshoots was a kind of set decorator's futurism, a picturesque sci-fi aesthetic driven by the assumption that if today looks spiffier than yesterday, then tomorrow is sure to look even spiffier... Immediately thereafter... any kind of hopeful speculation about the shape of things to come seemed corny and uncool.
The Wii, that's kind of changing the way we think about how to control games, so I think it's great with a game like Assassin's Creed where there's no longer a kind of set, like a platform game where there's a beginning, middle, and an end-of-level boss, it's a world to explore and a kind of mythology around it.
All of this marks an uncomfortable reversal for Spielberg, who has spent more than a decade as one of the Jewish world's most admired figures: his 1993 film Schindler's List has become a kind of set text of the Holocaust, seen by more people than will ever read Primo Levi or watch Claude Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half hour masterpiece, Shoah.
But at times he lowers into a kind of set-faced gloom at the things the world is willing to watch and praise.
The plot is not quite Medea, but this memoir is a kind of setting ablaze of a life's work that for Gordon is now inextricable from heartbreak.
Lorenzano (2013) provides a more complex taxonomy of the intellectual landscape of the Semantic View, including a discussion of Structuralism, a kind of set-/model-theoretic perspective.
At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Cisco demoed what you'd call consumer telepresence, a kind of set-top box that you put on your television that allows it to be used for high-quality videoconferencing.
That song is very funny because I wrote it in Columbus, Ohio, after a gig in a hotel in a kind of setting that the person of the song is in.
