How to Use set aside in a Sentence

set aside

1 of 2 phrase

• Be sure to set aside some room at the dinner table for scallops this summer.
  — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026
• Transfer to a clean large bowl, and set aside; repeat with remaining half of steak.
  — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
• Both proposals would set aside 10% of the program’s funding for tribes.
  — ABC News, 3 July 2026
• Poor families that can’t afford to set aside money for the accounts will benefit the least.
  — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
• This uncertainty affected whether food was set aside for donation or thrown out.
  — John Lowrey, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
• Balogun, who saw his red-card suspension set aside enabling him to play in Monday night’s win-or-done match.
  — Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
• Chiang acknowledged that for a very small restaurant, setting aside even a few seats can be a major decision.
  — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Domenico set aside the question of whether Enbrel’s price was appropriate.
  — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
• The funding gap isn’t a matter of the money not existing, the money has already been set aside but is being withheld.
  — Kelly Fleming, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Khozema also sets aside around 20 minutes for the interviewee to ask questions.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
• During his performance, the MC set aside time to share his thoughts on apparent spats with a few fellow rappers in a new freestyle.
  — Caché McClay, USA Today, 7 July 2026
• Voters whose ballots have been set aside are notified by their county election officials, and campaigns often work to cure ballots in close races.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
• There have been exceptions, and some of the good vibes are surely online fabrications, but for many, the geopolitical tensions have been temporarily set aside.
  — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
• After this launch, all six remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Boeing’s Starliner.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
• After this launch, all six remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Boeing’s Starliner.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
• Combine 2 tablespoons pectin, 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, pinch nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons sugar in small bowl and set aside.
  — ABC News, 29 June 2026
• All six remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Boeing’s Starliner, but that spacecraft does not have a solid return to flight yet.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
• Leaning into nostalgia meant setting aside the goofiness that had always been this franchise’s biggest advantage domestically.
  — David Deal, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Without keepers present for daily maintenance in the oft-harsh and briny air, many fell into disrepair and were considered excess property by the federal government, which did not set aside much money for preservation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
• In total, the proposal calls for 572 condominiums and 949 apartments, with at least 262 units set aside as affordable housing.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
• Bodycam footage shows an officer setting aside her laptop and phone in June, but a property receipt provided by the city does not specify whether a laptop and phone were among the items that made it to the property storage facility.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
• In less than eight years, Pinchot and Roosevelt set aside roughly 230 million acres as national forests and other public preserves — an area bigger than the three West Coast states put together.
  — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
• After this launch, all nine remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (3) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
• After this launch, all nine remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (3) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
• After this launch, all eight remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (2) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
• After this launch, all eight remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (2) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
• Politics have mostly been irrelevant (well, until yesterday’s red-card controversy), and many Americans have briefly set aside their red-versus-blue differences to rally together in the nation’s swirly red, white, and blue soccer kits.
  — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
• After this launch, all seven remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (1) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
• After this launch, all seven remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (1) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
• After this launch, all 11 remaining Atlas V rockets are set aside for Amazon’s Project Kuiper (5) or Boeing’s Starliner (6).
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026

set-aside

2 of 2 noun

• All of these efforts would be backed by set-aside financing, ensuring that the city would put its money where its mouth is.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
• Justice Samuel Alito might say the need for racial set-asides is over, but Democrats disagree.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• The set-aside secures a 20% density bonus, meaning the team can build up to 4,254 units.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2026
• The city could then use subcontracting goals or set-asides for certain small contracts to target businesses within those tiers, according to Bawa.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
• Hundreds of millions of acres of land in the United States have been taken off the table for housing through land set-asides, Kafkaesque permitting regimes, and the constant threat of litigation.
  — James Burling, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
• Should the sales process spill into next year, however, Zaslav’s tax liability picture would improve and the $335 million set-aside would not be needed, according to documents.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
• The credit rating agency believes Brightline will be able to cover an interest payment due in July only by exhausting the money set-aside to make those payments, unless business and train fares pick up more than expected before then.
  — Tom Hudson, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
• The single item that stops new projects is when the Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO) is required, with a set-aside of 20% of the units to be rented at below market prices.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026