setting
noun
the act of a person or thing that sets.
unsetting
-
a word derived from
setting.
Example Sentences
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But so breathtaking were the streets that late afternoon, with their sentinel trees and tender gardens, that the sun itself seemed to waver, unsetting, reluctant to leave; it was the onlooker whose presence weighted everything.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Sometimes it has burned so brightly, it has been my morning and evening star, my rising, but unsetting sun.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
The unsetting sun rose and dipped on the southern horizon, and the great engines purred unceasingly, working out the dream of the man whose mangled body lay in a nameless grave on an alien soil.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
Where earthly seasons play Still with their snows and blossoms and night and day, And no unsetting sun Brightens the white cloud and awakes the moon?
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
Deprived of these, the monarchy would decline quickly; for with all her pride, and her fame, and her unsetting sun, Spain was visibly going down.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
