Sentence examples for sets them down from inspiring English sources

The hand that takes up arms; the hand that sets them down again and shakes another to make peace.

Colin Graham's production, with sets by Sanghee Moon, dresses Cimarosa's figurinelike characters in tennis blazers and smoking jackets, sets them down in one of Sir Noël Coward's living rooms and has them drawl (unconvincingly) in British accents.

When he comes to repeat them aloud, for others to hear, or looks for someone to learn them by heart and repeat them to others as in a schola cantorum, or sets them down in writing or in printing, he has entered upon a new stage, not aesthetic but practical, whose social and cultural importance need not, of course, be insisted upon.

Christopher Cook puts the match to these combustible "running buddies" in ROBBERS (Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf, $24.95), a debut novel with classic noir bones, when he sets them down in Austin, Tex., in a stolen Eldorado and points them to the highway.

He hears things being said and, even if they are paranoid or semi-literate, faithfully sets them down: "Look what's happening in London, mate … Zone 1's being sold to the Russians and Zone 2's being bought by the poshos".

Naomi Foyle's debut novel, Seoul Survivors (Jo Fletcher Books, £16.99), takes a cast of quirky characters, sets them down in a convincingly portrayed near-future South Korea, then threatens them with Lucifer's Hammer, a meteor that is scheduled to hit the planet.

The guests set them down on purple table tops.

To set them down in words is to gain a handle on them.

The doctor picked up her boots and set them down in front of her.

"Other people with stick candles, they blew them out and just set them down".

"Oui, señor," Lopez said, and set them down on the butcher's station.