flash set

British  

noun

1. civil engineering undesirably rapid setting of cement in concrete

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Example Sentences

Gunder H�gg, the Swedish track flash, set a world's record for the twomile: 8 min.

From Time Magazine Archive

A blinding flash set his horses on edge, their sensitive nerves quivering in every flank.

From The Shagganappi by Johnson, E. Pauline

The rain was falling in torrents, and even the slight discharges of electricity that followed the one big flash set their flesh to tingling, and made them fear that worse was to follow.

From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Webster, Frank V.

You, 'too old to fight,'—and so in a flash set forward into old age,—are nevertheless finding your pen tipped with passion instead of with philosophy.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane