SETTLED in a Sentence

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The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.

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 Meanings and Examples of SETTLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
settled
 v.  settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
 v.  establish or develop as a residence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Cade Calvert was there and, after I settled about Dilcey, we all set on the gallery and had several toddies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  "I know how you feel but there isn't any sacrifice too great for the Cause," broke in Mrs. Elsing in a soft voice that settled matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  When the war was over, everything would be settled, somehow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Young Carey looked confused and pleased at hearing such statements from settled matrons and spinsters like Mrs. Meade and Melanie and Aunt Pitty and Fanny, and tried to hope that Scarlett really meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  And upon learning the cause of the upset, he settled the matter with words that left no room for argument.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Evidently he had forgotten the contretemps, or pretended to have forgotten it, for he settled himself on the top step at her feet without mention of their late difference.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  And, as Scarlett settled the heavy basket across her arm, she had settled her own mind and her own life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Just a little cold which had settled in his chest, he said, trying to rise to greet her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  But when the weeks crawled by and Ashley did not come or any news of him, Tara settled back into its old routine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Many Irish and Germans who had been bounty men in the Union Army had settled in Atlanta after their discharge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Especially did she resent this in view of the enormous increase in mulatto babies in Atlanta since the Yankee soldiers had settled in the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  She blew her nose on his bandanna, for she had come from Atlanta without even a handkerchief, and settled back into the crook of Will's arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
15  One cry from her of love and longing, one look that pleaded for his arms, and the matter would be settled forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
16  The Whites settled down, bought a house, and put on the dog.
17  It's time you settled your differences with your father.
18  Trade having been done, they settled to take the meal, to eat, to indicate their good intentions.
19  She quickly settled down in her new house/job/school.
20  They settled the land, dispossessing many of its original inhabitants.
21  He decided to lead a more settled life with his partner.
22  As soon as I have settled down, I will send a message to you.
23  He settled into comfortable middle age.
24  Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.
25  When I brought up the question of funding, he quickly interjected that it had been settled.
26  Stock market trading slowly settled down as sanity returned.
27  Thus the question was finally settled.
28  The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone.
29  It was a very modest affair, a gathering of Caribbean musicians in an area of London, where many West Indian immigrants had settled in the 1950s.
30  A loud guffaw that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business.