How to Use set (someone) right/straight in a Sentence

set (someone) right/straight

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  • Làng Chài, the restaurant, is set right on the gossamer-fine sands.
    Travel, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Book a room at Kachi Lodge, which is set right on the flat, for a very special stay.
    Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The sun will set right on the hour Sunday and get even later in the coming weeks.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The world has gone hysterical over A.I. and had to be set straight.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 29 June 2023
  • And Just Like That, why not dive into some of the best travel movies out there, many of which are set right here in the West.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • The groove-heavy band delighted the crowd, many of who were there to see Stevie Nicks’ set right after.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The most common cause of new installation failure is when one emitter is set right at the base of the main stem and nowhere else.
    Lynlee Austell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Dungeness is always on the menu at the Alderbrook, set right on Washington’s Hood Canal.
    Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The record is being set straight on Kate Middleton's recent health scare.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Sadow suggested that a trial date not be set right now to allow time to see how things play out.
    Kate Brumback The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Mistakes could be corrected, wrongs could be set right.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • One wrong move—an emergency brake not set right, Fluffy shifting her weight just so—and the vehicle could have crashed into the ravine.
    Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
  • On March 29th, after six days of blocking a vital trade route, the skyscraper-size ship was set right and sailed north under its own power.
    The Economist, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Young wants a certain tone to be set right from Carolina’s first training-camp workout.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 25 July 2023
  • The match was suspended for just over 33 minutes early in the second set right after Boulter held serve with an ace to go up 1-0.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • After making par on 18, Schauffele gave a small nod to his caddie and to the crowd before calmly walking off the course, eyes set straight on the weekend.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
  • Games functioned as a salve: little worlds where everything could be ordered and, with time and effort, set right.
    Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Moving from the primary wing of the home, there’s an additional room that could be used as an office, and a living area set right at the entrance to the home.
    Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The crowd was seated like at an old nightclub, with round tables set right up to the stage, which had a long runway jutting into the audience.
    Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
  • There will be four restaurants and bars—some of which will be set right upon the sand—while a spa is hidden within manicured gardens.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Edgewood is the only luxury South Lake Tahoe resort set right on the beach, and offers an out-of-the-ordinary escape.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023
  • The area also has a distinctly more summery feeling than the rest of the town — set right on the Long Island Sound, most houses look out onto beaches, bluffs, and salt marshes.
    Jenny Xie, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The hotel makes for an impressive facade set right between Edinburgh’s Old Town and New, and offers a great jumping off point to explore the city.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024
  • The property is located in southern Oregon on 100 acres set right off the Redwood Highway.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2024
  • Even the rediscovery of an artifact as provocative as the Clotilda didn’t guarantee that would be set straight.
    al, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There seems to have been some confusion as to which patty-flipping yellow sponge has reportedly stolen Ariana Grande’s heart — and now the record has been set straight.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 July 2023
  • Then Austin is one of the great cities in America, and the festival is set right in the middle of the city, making for a wonderfully scenic and memorable experience.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • This place of succor is an extensive archaeological site now, and there is an ancient theater set right in the middle of it.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The magic continues even in bathrooms, where oversized freestanding tubs are set right against windows.
    Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
  • Even if he had been wronged by being deprived of knowledge about his biological kin when growing up, that wrong wouldn’t be set right by supplying the knowledge now.
    New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021

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