Sentence examples for set off material from inspiring English sources

To set off material that can be deleted without changing the sentence's meaning: "I was born in 1958, a very good year".

Dashes set off parenthetical material that could be removed while leaving the rest of the sentence intact.

We set off.

Then we set off.

The boat set off.

Eventually, we set off.

She nodded; they set off.

Set off your car alarm.

The "Reparation Hardware" video uses Restoration Hardware's audiovisual lexicon of solemn aerial drone footage and a light, bland score to set off the source material's tone of patronizing sincerity before gradually, and happily, going off key.

All that clinical whiteness, along with three sections of mirrors arranged to create an endless reflection, helps to set off the extreme materials of the costumes and the vivid Gotham backdrops.

The radiation monitors that check trucks at transfer stations are not sophisticated enough to determine what types of radioactive material set off the alarms.