Examples of settle

• They had to go to court to settle the argument.

• They're still dithering about who to invite, but we really need to get it settled.

• He still needs to settle the date of the meeting.

• That's settled - I never want to see him again.

• We haven't quite settled who's responsible for what.

• I settled back and waited for the film to start.

• We settled in our comfortable carriage and watched the scenery roll by.

• I couldn't seem to settle the children in bed.

• I settled myself with a cup of tea and thought about what had happened.

• We've moved all over the country, but I'd like to settle here now.

• The Romans settled in Britain in the first century AD.

• After decades of desert life, they settled in the mountains.

• The juice goes thick at the bottom when it settles.

• Snow had settled on the rooftops.

• Once dust settles in the gaps, it will not work as well.

• By the end of the eight-year period studied, 2,000 people were settled in twelve colonies.

• The incongruity between extra-terrestrial beings and the settled, comfortable world they invade produces a creative tension.

• As cocoa specialization provided greater remuneration to the farmer's labour, it soon became the crop of choice for all smallholders who settled in forested lands.

• After having settled on a general approach, let us discuss the form of judgments.

• There is an even stronger case for a second edition, when the dust has settled a little on the current reform process.

• The way perceptions are represented in our brains is far from settled, but the rules of kinematic geometry could not be applied to some possibilities.

• After settling the final form in a clay model, it was enlarged to a fullscale set of plaster fragments in his workshop.

• Conversion would follow, and then a settled domestic life.

• Most of these were young women travelling abroad to experience something new before attending university or settling down in their own country.

• While there were important differences of perspective, both parties subscribed broadly to the liberal social democratic policy framework settled in the 1950s.

• Disagreements in coding arose in relation to 1.5% of the codable utterances, and 0.7 % of those were settled by discussion.

• When aphids had moulted, passed through the teneral stage, settled and begun reproducing, they were transferred to experimental plants.

• After this initial coding had yielded 55 per cent agreement, we examined all discrepancies and then jointly settled on a final coding.

• After that is done, the second ballot presents itself, and the voter settles down to his or her more serious convictions.

• Instead, 'these conflicts should be settled by an independent party'.