Example sentences for: settle

How can you use “settle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But in its absence, we settle for politicians who abide by the rules (like the phones rules), which are devised to cloak impropriety in propriety.

  • Gore, in particular, wanted to avoid an appeal by finding a way to settle with the various plaintiffs in the suit.

  • The LAT is to be saluted for running this story prominently, and if American is smart it'll settle this case before large numbers of the paper's 1 million daily readers decide there are plenty of other morally sound ways to fly out of town.

  • The revelation that some troops were, in fact, exposed to toxic gases does not settle the case.

  • In a primitive economy there is no way to avoid this tradeoff--if you want to be able to leave for the desert on short notice, you settle for matzo instead of bread, and if you want ready cash, you keep gold coins under the mattress.


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