The phrase "as the sets" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing or referring to specific groups or collections of items, often in a mathematical or organizational context.
Example: "The results were consistent across all experiments, as the sets of data showed similar trends."
Alternatives: "like the groups" or "similar to the collections".
The performances seem, at first, as wooden and one-dimensional as the sets.
But as soon as the sets were done, Prince was off.
Familiar surroundings are sometimes used as the sets for futuristic dramas.
Conceive of the eruv and its tenders as the sets and stagehands of a Broadway show.
This seemed doubtful, as the sets were always closed and a security guard or two was on sentinel duty at all times.
The Fox News Channel secured the rotunda of the state Capitol and chambers of the state legislature as the sets for the various political talk and news programs it is broadcasting all weekend.
No wonder Branagh has engaged Liz Smith to play Papagena, the cackling crone who lusts after the terrified bird-man Papageno: among so many fresh young faces, she looks as authentically weathered as the sets.
The set was some kind of vast white space ringed with pseudo Greco-Roman columns, but it had the same feeling of remoteness as the sets on "Star Trek"—as if the woman had totally left Earth behind.
As the sets and props were being dismantled and thrown away, I went to the prop master and asked if the photographs from the episode about the matchmaking dry cleaner were still around.
Reading "Cubed" is like visiting a museum holding an exhibit called "The Office Through the Ages"; each gallery is a period room as fussily appointed as the sets on "Mad Men," down to the last gooseneck lamp and matte-beige telephone.
Also on the premises were custom-made waterfalls and a newly built cottage, similarly, one supposes, of the magical-rustic variety, as the sets and gowns were the creation of a designer who worked on the "Lord of the Rings" films.
