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Example sentences for: settlements

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Clinton has been squeezing the settlements a bit too hard lately.
The NYT front reports that financial settlements have been reached in a case in which without permission or legal sanction, America Online identified to a Navy investigator an active-duty sailor whose on-line profile suggested he was gay.
During the Stone Age, these early farmers devised ways to make axes and other tools from the harder rocks in the area, and as time passed, permanent settlements began to be established in this sheltered backwater.
Stoas were extremely popular in the Roman era and all large settlements had one.
Though many have now traded their wandering ways for permanent settlements, they still prefer to live in tents rather than houses and treasure their traditional social habits.