Example sentences for: settling

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

  • The Guelf-Ghibelline conflict became a pretext for settling family feuds (such as the one typified in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) or communal rivalries, from which Genoa and Florence emerged stronger than ever.

  • The verb settle is used transitively of the action of peopling a place, as in to settle a district, intransitively of the action of settling oneself, as in to settle in the colony.

  • He ran through several careers during his 20s--art dealer in the Hague, schoolteacher in London, missionary to coal miners in southern Belgium--before settling on the least secure one of painter.

  • ■ Dewatering system (settling tanks/vessels, hydrocyclones, and/or vacuum filters) ■ Stacking equipment

  • The minor league of golf, the Nike Tour features struggling rookies and over-the-hill dreamers striving to make the PGA Tour but settling for budget motels and yearly winnings of less than $20,000.


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