Words similar to settlement

Example sentences for: settlement

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

The LAT reports that very little of last year's $206 billion settlement between states and tobacco companies is being used for anti-smoking programs.
Out in the bay, on Lennox Island, is a settlement of Micmac Indians.
While the earliest, around 70,000 b.c., moved down the Pacific coast to South America, the settlement of Canada began some 15,000 years after, spreading across the continent from the Yukon and, much later, from British Columbia.
Close sources say that the problem is that Jones rejected a $700,000 settlement offer because it didn't include a full apology from the president.
Aberdeen, the island’s oldest settlement, once a pirate lair, is home to the “floating population” — the boat people who spend their entire lives on the junks in the harbor, some proudly claiming never to have set foot on land (except for funerals, which don’t count).