Sentence examples for use as a setting from inspiring English sources

Theroux stays at the Fairlawn, "a Calcutta institution in every sense, run by the domineering Mrs. Smith and her family: stodgy food, mutton chops and boiled cabbage and bossy waiters,... the sort of place Theroux might use as a setting for his Indian fictions".

But that device is too complicated and way too expensive for most consumers to use as a set-top box.

Alternatively, variations to the AIL design can be used so that the built resource can be maintained for future use as a set of recombinant inbred strains.

Often, we can accurately infer that most database molecules are inactive and randomly select tens or hundreds from the database to use as a set of inactive molecules.

The surrounding area was long used as a setting for Westerns.

It was used as a setting by Jorge Amado in his novels dealing with the cacao culture.

The city was used as a setting by the writer Jorge Amado in his writings on Brazilian society.

She developed her device by using gelatine, a foodstuff made from the bones of animals and typically used as a setting agent for desserts.

A third wrote that there was a good reason the station was used as a setting for the 1984 horror film "C.H.U.D".

There are the ruins of the Spratt House in Tarrytown, which was once used as a setting for the television series "Dark Shadows".

Michiko Kakutani writes that it lacks the energy or keenly observed grittiness of the real-life Brooklyn that Lethem used as a setting in earlier works.