Example Sentences

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It’s qualitatively different from the kind of tiredness that comes from an afternoon of set-tos and whining when you and your kid are stuck in a room together.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2019

During the day he cares for the inmates, consoling them, moderating their set-tos and tenderly putting them, when the time comes, to sleep.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2018

But the formal strictures of such set-tos mask the fact that debate, in its loosest form, is something most people engage in almost daily.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2010

Despite the sister's gabby gossiping, the kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have never been anything else but complaisant in the little set-tos with your father, Miss Genevieve.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis