VERB
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cost a certain amount
My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000 -
slow down the progress of; hinder
His late start set him back -
hold back to a later time
let's postpone the exam
How To Use set back In A Sentence
- He has plunged too many depths to be upset by small set backs or inconveniences.
- They could narrow the search to old houses—because of the camphene lamp—and to ones set back from the beach itself—because of the maple and oak leaf trace. A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set
- Burning and disking appears to set back gallberry more than does burning alone, but disking probably does not kill gallberry except during periods of very low soil moisture.
- On the other side, three stores, then the courthouse -- a cupolaed white frame building set back from the road with a patchy lawn in front -- then four more storefronts, two of them brick. Cold Mountain
- The Dutch colonial houses were graceful and large, set back amid cocas, kanary, and nutmeg trees, while the rest of the small town lay half hidden in the foliage of palms.
- Yesterday it was like winter again and we had a set back. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
- The opening of the new swimming pool has been set back by a few weeks.
- Financial problems have set back our building programme.
- Most flame weeders on the market are the same ones used by fire fighters to set backfires.
- Even if we suffer a set back we have bouncebackability.
