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How to use set-to in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word set-to? Here are some examples.

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Over the past few months Lea, already worth several million pounds, has been having a bit of a set-to with his US colleagues.
And the show's roving reporter will inevitably look as if he has experienced a major set-to with the studio hairdresser before each episode.
Having previously had a set-to about a similar issue with the particular gallery, I was disinclined to raise the issue.
I had a bit of a set-to with him and his mates last night so I came home by myself.
Returning to the painting course, he felt nothing for oil-on-canvas and had a set-to with tutors in his fourth year when he started painting on Formica panels.
His set-to with the federal agency not only underscores the often misguided intent of arts funding, but the futility of conforming to other people's standards.
Examples from Classical Literature
But that was all like playing skretch-cradle to our set-to last night in the dark.
We had our first set-to this morning, in which he winged me, but I got the best of him.
Cut in Miss Hawtry at the second set-to of Harriet and aunt.
The night we went to novello's there was a complete set-to of Mozart and punning.
The set-to you had about the Indians' right to hunt pleased us both.
By then the others were near enough to take part in the set-to.
He was a sailor once more, and had a deuce of a set-to with some Lascars.
But there can be no question about the outcome of such a set-to.
Went to the chapel last night, I understand, and he and dad had a set-to.
I'd set-to this minute, and never stir from the spot till I'd cut every strip of flesh from your bones with this whip.
This encounter, together with my set-to with the Martian warrior on the previous day and my feats of jumping placed me upon a high pinnacle in their regard.
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