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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : set-bak |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛtˌbæk |
Definition of set-back
- As in amount : noun total
- If we don't get her out he'll have a set-back, but if they show her to him it'll kill him.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- War is a word that means agony to many and a set-back to all.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- Don't you think that, an' have a set-back when you find it ain't!
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- A set-back because the work had been begun with rough tools and lack of material.
- Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
- That was the first set-back, and the next one was ten times worse.
- Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus
- Then there comes the striving to change life and again the set-back.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume--1895-1899) » by Leo Tolstoi
- It was a set-back to Denver, and two years of stagnation followed.
- Extract from : « The Crest of the Continent » by Ernest Ingersoll
- From everywhere, except one, had come either news of defeat or set-back.
- Extract from : « No Defense, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- The girls will be in shape to travel by New Years, if there is no set-back.
- Extract from : « The Corner House Girls on Palm Island » by Grace Brooks Hill
- Business and population showed no set-back in their progress.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 » by Various
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