Sentence examples for but never set from inspiring English sources

The department had asked groups to apply by June 15 but never set that date as a legal deadline.

I tried it repeatedly this summer in hopes of finding a basketball game in Greenwich Village or Astoria, Queens, but never set foot on a court.

But never set out to embrace the suffering, for if you do, you have embraced a very strange idol and rejected God.

Mr. Hagel's predecessor, Leon E. Panetta, created the Distinguished Warfare Medal for service members like drone operators and cyberwarriors who have a major effect on a military operation but never set foot in the combat zone.

She ventured twice to Ohio in the final days of the campaign — a state she would lose by eight points — but never set foot in Wisconsin during the general election, and she made a few strategic errors in Michigan.

From Eisenman, to the party planners who make sure Playboy's yearly Super Bowl bash is harder to get into than the game itself, to the security personnel and countless others who make the game happen but never set foot on the field, St. John picks telling examples to illustrate what makes an enormous undertaking seem so effortless.

Some tales - of using the cemetery of the Anglican Cathedral as a post-war playground (but never setting foot inside), or the children taking themselves on the Mersey ferry on their own to escape quarrelling parents - have found their way into the play.

But Iturbide never set out to document her own country.

But I never set out to be a poet.

But it never set out to do that.

But he never set out to be an astronomer.