Sentence examples for and setting it off from inspiring English sources

"We recently acquired a 19th-century period frame for 'Autumn' that has utterly transformed the painting," she said, "enhancing its pictorial depth and setting it off as the American masterpiece it truly is".

The problem is that it may take several seconds for the brain to become conscious of what it's seen, and in Afghanistan, that brief time can mean the difference between spotting a bomb, and driving over it and setting it off.

Cisco planted a bomb by their garden wall and set it off.

He surmises that the shaking of the first quake loosened the second fault and set it off.

So several of them would dress as civilians, move the truck bomb near the checkpoint and set it off.

Thomas's most spectacular act is to pack a bomb in a hollowed-out volume of "Das Kapital" and set it off in a crowded bookstore.

(In fact there is an incentive to take the loss and set it off against other taxable gains).But there are contrary forces at work.

His talent, coupled with a blustery persona and Bunyanesque physique, was the spark that lighted baseball's populist fuse and set it off into prime-time glory.

In a 1991 Tom Clancy novel, "The Sum of All Fears," Islamic terrorists find and rebuild an Israeli nuclear weapon and set it off at the Super Bowl.

Government officials were worried that a terrorist group with access to sufficient quantities of highly enriched uranium might commandeer the bomb, load it with fissile material, and set it off.

The blast was purportedly carried out by two men who boarded a bus from Jammu with a briefcase bomb on Sept. 4 and set it off three days later.