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Somerset

[ UK /sˈʌməsˌɛt/ ]
[ US /ˈsəmɝˌsɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel

How To Use Somerset In A Sentence

  • Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
  • I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset.
  • Not much fazes Somerset's chief executive, Richard Gould. Somerset prepare for life in the eye of the Pakistan spot-fixing storm
  • In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • Amos and Jimmie Starkweather were all for sailing off this morning to bring the dory home," he continued, "but a boatload of the 'Somerset's' men stopped them and sent them ashore, threatening to dismast any sloop that put up a sail in this harbor without their permission. A Little Maid of Province Town
  • Under the pressure that comes with a major final Boswell's chest-on, round-arm action disintegrated and Somerset cruised to victory.
  • The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.
  • To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham 
  • Since 1902 the game has been played between Somerset Cricket Club and St. George's Cricket Club, with the venue for the two-day match alternating each year.
  • I ditched the first saddlebag at the White Horse in Exford, Somerset, the second at Raleghs Cross Inn in the Brendon hills.
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