Sentence examples for an obligatory setup from inspiring English sources

Her cursory account of the company's early years has the feel of an obligatory setup to her main story.

In these programs the documentation of embattled park rangers and conservationists is the obligatory setup — the plumber walking into the bored housewife's kitchen, as it were — that we have to sit through to get to the good stuff.

Cue an obligatory roar.

Kinect stayed as an obligatory feature.

It was not an obligatory move.

So this gives them an obligatory break.

(Yes, there's an obligatory Hamilton joke).

Trypanosoma lewisi is an obligatory, flagellated parasite of the rat.

Cold ischemia is an obligatory part of solid organ transplantation.

This produces an obligatory outward rotation when walking or sitting.

The sea leg is an obligatory cost factor.