Sentence examples for served as a setting from inspiring English sources

The office of a proctologist in a small Maine town apparently served as a setting for the 2007 study, the results of which were never published.

But it has been a while since a school served as a setting for a television show — "Room 222" and "Saved by the Bell" are ancient history; Fox canceled "Boston Public" in 2004.

IT was a gloomy winter day, and the cartoonist Daniel Clowes was taking me on a tour of his neighborhood here, including a downbeat stretch of Piedmont Avenue that has served as a setting in some of his recent graphic novels.

Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J., which also served as a setting for 'The Sopranos,' still advertises as "the original" Bada Bing Club in a tribute to the show, according to CNN.

The Jersey Girls emerged from Middletown, New Jersey - a place that could have served as a set for The Stepford Wives.

Grommets were arranged in the back of one style so that the glove could almost have served as a set of brass knuckles.

With a homecourt at Hinkle Fieldhouse that once served as a set for "Hoosiers," casting Butler as the small-school wonder among the powerhouses Duke, West Virginia and Michigan State is almost too easy.

In "normal science," researchers did narrow, technical work guided by a "paradigm," a view of the field that served as a set of predictions for what investigators would find.

It's hard to believe, but 10 years ago the 100-room Governor Hotel, 611 Southwest 10th Avenue, (800) 554-3456, fax (503) 241-2122, www.govhotel.com, was a dilapidated shell that served as a set for Gus Van Sant's film "My Own Private Idaho".

The next day, Conway was sitting in the Trump Grill, in the peach-marbled lobby of Trump Tower, which has served as a set for several of the campaign's famous moments.

So surreal is the rocky, red landscape, says Derek Ong, a Jordan guide for tour company Absolute Travel, that it's actually served as a set for the planet Mars in several movies.