How to Use television set in a Sentence

television set

noun
  • The team had gotten him a television set to watch all of our games.
    — New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Of course that was all taking place on my television set.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 24 June 2026
  • My student film was about a boy who was born with a television set for a head.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The new storefront even has a couch and television set up to host these events.
    — Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
  • This was at a time when most households had just a single television set.
    — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • On the second floor, an old man lives in a tiny room with only a television set.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The television set in his cell keeps him plugged into the daily news cycle.
    — Afşin Yurdakul, Time, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The gloom of the post-war years is slowly cast off and the hip neighbors have purchased a television set.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Imagine a person in the analog age pounding on the side of a television set.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • The camera pans downward, from television set to kitchen table.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late-night television set a new record for his show.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is also a compact media center here for placing a television set.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 16 May 2023
  • The average television set had seven people hunched around it.
    — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the edible dioramas are larger than a television set.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The bit featured Bart launching in the air and falling in front of the family's television set.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The youngest daughter communes with ghosts through the television set and eventually goes missing.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The most terrifying moment for Bagans came from using an old television set in the house that was a focal point in the movie.
    — Julie Jordan, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • For Morris, stepping onto a television set came with pressure to prove herself.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • When Ben smashes a television set, perhaps Roberts is even making some sort of societal point.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Golf fans at home were glued to the television set, as proven by the Masters television ratings revealed on Monday.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The following week, another golden statue of an eagle atop an old-fashioned television set appeared in the same place.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement When that day arrived, nearly one in every three people on the planet was in front of a television set.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Many sat huddled around a television set or radio, fearing the worst, anticipating the start of a nuclear war was about to begin.
    — Steve Koester, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • By the time Kennedy was elected eight years later, 80 percent of American homes had a television set.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Sep. 2024

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