set apart

How To Use set apart In A Sentence

• He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents.
• The Scottish king retained the paternal image of an earlier regnal style, and was not yet set apart by crowning and unction from his subjects, who were apt, indeed, to address him in a free and familiar style.
• Every day saw him engaged in cultivating a taste for literature and art, and some moments of every day were set apart for social gallantries.
• The first decade of this new century has been a period ofconsequence - a time set apart.
• Sharma's feet were splayed, set apart from each other in disgrace, his work unfinished.
• The question that can be asked is: can a certain percentage of replenishable groundwater be considered to be set apart for agriculture?
• Its gates opened to any person who was born with the marking and he taught them why they had been marked, why they were set apart from any other ordinary person not bearing that marking.
• Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King s daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth [FN#208] and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks. Arabian nights. English
• I believe that one-third out of the number of days in the year are “kept holy,” or rather, _kept stupid_, in honour of the saints; no great portion of the time thus set apart is spent in religious exercises, and the people don’t betake themselves to any such animating pastimes as might serve to strengthen the frame, or invigorate the mind, or exalt the taste. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
• Here we were to stay the night at a kind of caravanserai, set apart for emigrants. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays