Sentence examples for face had set from inspiring English sources

She was already in gear: her kind face had set into fierce muscle.

The face-off had set the already anxious publishing industry on edge.

He said that the orchestra does not play in rain, and that in the past it had coped with the opposite of the problem it faced this week: It had set up space heaters for an open-air concert on a South American tour when the weather turned unexpectedly chilly.

He said Hamas had "set its face against any peace deal with Israel" and undertaken a "campaign of terror".

Erm … The Lib Dems of 2004 had set its face against public sector reform, Marshall says, to some discontented muttering from the audience.

Both sides were claiming victory, but David Cameron, in talks with the other party leaders last Wednesday, had set his face against a charter underpinned by statute.

The Labour leader said MPs who had set their face against his tenure must respect the views of the members who elected him.

He exuded a bitterness that had set his face into a caricature of the Angry Arab.

Elgin Baylor, the Clippers' vice president of basketball operations, said the Clippers had set up a face-to-face visit with Bryant in the near future.

As if participating in the joke of their transplantation from Baroque to postmodernist art, the costumed men and women had set their faces in comically rigid, exaggerated expressions.

It was the practical decision of a man facing his circumstances and what he had set for himself as a task.