Example sentences for: settled

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

  • In May 2003, the U.S. government settled the matter, at least in Thumairy's case, by refusing to let him back into the country.

  • The first oil well in the United States was drilled in 1859, by Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, a town named for Jonathan Titus, who settled it in 1796 (and wanted to call it Edinburgh).

  • The Vandals, who destroyed almost all evidence of the Roman occupation, settled in North Africa, becoming a sea power.

  • The majority settled in Florida.

  • As a Wall Street Journal reporter, he covered both the Gulf War and Bosnia and, returning to the States, settled with his wife in the shadow of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.


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