How to Use television set in a Sentence

television set

noun
Definition of television setnext
  • That was where our kids were in the ’80s: sitting in front of a television set.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The team had gotten him a television set to watch all of our games.
    — New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • His family, in Carmel in Flintshire, North Wales, was one of the first on their street to have a television set.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The circus that should be the 2023 New York Jets training camp is coming to a television set near you.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 12 July 2023
  • The clip opens with the musician settling in at a karaoke spot where the song is loaded onto the television set.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • This was at a time when most households had just a single television set.
    — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But a lot of people who still sit down in front of the television set are looking for more of a straight-ahead discussion about the news.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The 76-year-old had left another section of the live television set to interrupt Elmo’s segment and rough the muppet up.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Before the invention of remote controls, Presley found that shooting the television set with a pistol was the quickest way to get Goulet off the screen.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • Fallon then revealed an image of Kanzi sitting with his arms crossed in front of the television set, staring at Eisenberg’s bigfoot self on screen.
    — EW.com, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Instead, Barbie had a television set and record player.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2023
  • The 45th president himself even makes a cameo via the television set of main antagonist Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm).
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Arsenio Hall guaranteed Rock's set would cause Smith to smack his television set.
    — Jake Coyle, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Arsenio Hall guaranteed Rock’s set would cause Smith to smack his television set.
    — Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The average television set had seven people hunched around it.
    — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
  • At one point in the show, Danny’s character unearths a television set from several layers of trash.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There is also a compact media center here for placing a television set.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 16 May 2023
  • Bellos and Montagu tell the story of a documentary filmmaker who shot a scene in which a group of workers were sitting around playing a board game with a television set on in the background.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The average American household of 2024 will be equipped with an appliance that combines the features of a television set with those of a desk computer and a Xerox machine.
    — James Rosen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The monitor was an RCA black-and-white television set with minor modifications.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Hudson's television set, which is typically chic, was turned into a tribute to hip-hop with the show title displayed in colorful airbrush lettering on a brick wall.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Another is dominated by a large television set, installed by Donald Trump.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Bob Shrum, a veteran Democratic strategist, once said a political rally in California consists of three people gathered around a television set.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Then the pandemic turned many homes into de facto entertainment centers—flat-screen television set, surround-sound systems, wall sconce lighting—while streaming services provided robust viewing options.
    — James S. Hirsch | Photographs By Allie Leepson + Jesse McClary For The Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 26 May 2023
  • Elders have always overreacted to the supposedly mind-altering properties of certain technological advancements, from the printing press to the television set.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024

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