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Sentence count:28+1 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2017-06-25Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: setupset upset-upact uponput uponset up in businessput up or shut upstuporMeaning: v. assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards". 
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1 He was set upon by a vicious dog.
2 We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious.
3 As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.
4 Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator.
5 Margarett set upon the package, tearing at its wrappings, only to find beneath it another carton, then still another.
6 The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach.
7 In a confused situation, the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers.
8 Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.
9 He was set upon by two masked men.
10 We were set upon by a band of robbers.
11 His mind was now set upon the dollar problem; this was grim indeed.
12 He is set upon by adversities; but he sings a song.
13 Still, her heart was set upon having that monster and she couldn't give it up.
14 What was the matter with these women, always set upon this marrying notion?
15 I believe the sun should never set upon an argument.
16 Two Ku Klux Klanners set upon him as he was going home.
17 When she had once set upon anything(sentencedict.com), the family failed before her.
18 One was normal except for some wooden dividers which had been set upon its surface.
19 The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.
20 Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men.
21 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves.
22 Meanwhile, the sheep industry had developed rapidly, and these smaller animals were promptly set upon by both wolves and coyotes.
23 Last Tuesday, in a separate attack on the same mountain, another rambler was set upon by the cows, suffering wounds in the back of the head, face and arms and legs.
24 Shown here is a dolmen, a huge stone slab set upon other huge stones.
25 Cheesecake is done if the top is slightly puffy and set except for a small area in the center that should still appear soft and jiggly (about the size of a silver dollar). This will set upon cooling.
26 In 1991 he and his friends defended themselves against some white racist thugs who set upon them for no other reason than their skin colour.
27 At first I thought one of them was being set upon by three others. I was not going to stand by and watch somebody take a beating or worse so I tried to intervene.
28 The two boys frantically grabbed rolling pin and the coal shovel and set upon their father.
More similar words: setupset upset-upact uponput uponset up in businessput up or shut upstuporlet upletupgetupget upuponcouponthereuponcome uponrun uponlook uponbear uponfrown upongang up onwhereuponenter uponcheck up onhinge uponmeet up withcoupon bonddepend uponchance uponstumble upon
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