set at

phrase

: to mount an attack on : assail

I would go although … devils should set at me …

—Charlotte Yonge

Examples of set at in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Harmon is being held in the Tarrant County Jail with bond set at over $1 million. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026

For chemicals classified as possible human carcinogens, MCLGs are typically set at a level where drinking the water daily for 70 years would cause one additional cancer case per 1 million people above the background rate. — Christine Kirchhoff, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

The story is set at a railway station in Calcutta (now Kolkata), where thousands of refugee families from East Bengal (later East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) have made the platforms their home, packed together with nowhere else to go. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

Entries are now being accepted on the Foot Locker app, and pricing is set at $190. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for set at

• begat
• bobcat
• chitchat
• doormat
• ducat
• eclat
• format
• hazmat
• muskrat
• nonfat
• polecat
• thereat