Sentence examples for seemed set off from inspiring English sources

"Bjorn hated it here," said Mary Carillo, the astute broadcaster for CBS, once a tour player, referring to Bjorn Borg, who never won the Open — 10 of them, three surfaces — and always seemed set off by the bad lights and general cacophony of Queens.

At the two-furlong pole, Mozart seemed set to pull off an upset of his own, but inside the final furlong Black Minnaloushe came up on the inside to win.

The Robins, who saw Louis Carey make a record-equalling 645th club appearance, seemed set to climb off the foot of the table thanks to Sam Baldock's penalty.

US stock markets seemed set for a similar sell-off but managed a late rally to pare back on some of the day's losses.

That seemed to set off a price war, with many tickets falling below that price.

The sale seemed to set off a domino effect on the block.

The ignominious conclusion did more than end the Mets' season; it seemed to set off a kind of karmic cyclone from which the team has yet to emerge.

He said the denunciation by Mr. Karzai's rivals was lamentable, since it seemed to set off problems in different regions of the country.

But after a trying summer for Mr. Trump, during which he seemed to set off controversy almost daily, he has displayed something approaching self-discipline in recent days.

Some of the polls, especially the Time magazine poll which had Mr. Obama five points ahead in Ohio, seemed to set off a lot of discussion on Twitter, as though people were surprised that Mr. Obama still held the lead there.

This infuriated the Devils and seemed to set off some kind of demographics alarm, as if the N.H.L. had for a few mortal moments wandered into a neighborhood it did not wish to be in.