SETTLE in a Sentence

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For SETTLE, below is one of 282 sentences:
We plan to settle the remaining $10 million of short term convertible debt also in cash when it is exercised before August 2011.

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 Meanings and Examples of SETTLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
settle
 v.  cause to take up residence:
 v.  become clear by the sinking of particles
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we'll go together and settle everything," he answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  As if the play had jerked the ball out of the cup; as if what I call myself was still floating unattached, and didn't settle.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  She gave them ten seconds to settle their faces.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  And now," said he, "to settle what remains.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
6  By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
7  I shall settle it for them both," replied Front-de-Boeuf; "they shall hang on the same gallows, unless his master and this boar of Coningsburgh will pay well for their lives.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  But the ways and means were still to settle.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  Birthright and habit must settle the business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  I am an advocate for early marriages, where there are means in proportion, and would have every young man, with a sufficient income, settle as soon after four-and-twenty as he can.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  One beautiful evening, when the first shades of twilight were beginning to settle upon the earth, Oliver sat at this window, intent upon his books.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Whoever suffered inconvenience, she must suffer none, but it occupied a little time to settle the point of civility between the other two.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  At the other side of the chimney stood the settle, which is the necessary supplement to a fire so open that nothing less than a strong breeze will carry up the smoke.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
15  Outside the settle candles gutter, locks of hair wave, young women shiver, and old men sneeze.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
16  I'm not going to settle for second best.
17  They'll soon settle in - kids are very good at adjusting.
18  We plan to settle the remaining $10 million of short term convertible debt also in cash when it is exercised before August 2011.
19  After his years of adventure, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.
20  The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her.
21  "Nonsense! and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you? Will it keep you in England, induce you to marry Miss Oliver, and settle down like an ordinary mortal?"
22  A meeting of committees to settle differences between two legislative bodies.
23  To the starlet, any publicity was good publicity: if she couldn't have a good reputation, she'd settle for notoriety.
24  New York City is a polyglot community because of the thousands of immigrants who settle there.
25  Tom dreamed of owning an ocean-going yacht but had to settle for a skiff he could sail in the bay.
26  The tribunal has authority to settle certain types of dispute.
27  There was trouble 'bout something, and then a lawsuit to settle it; and the suit went agin one of the men, and so he up and shot the man that won the suit -- which he would naturally do, of course.
28  It could herald a much bigger change: the precedent set would surely entice others to follow, why should a restaurant settle for paying an extra twice as much to accept credit-card fees?
29  It listens to customer-service calls and assigns an empathy score based on how compassionate agents are and how fast and how capably they settle complaints.
30  She seems fairly settled in her new job already.