How To Use Settle down In A Sentence
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The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
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'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance.
Times, Sunday Times
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When are you going to get married and settle down?
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He needs to settle down and show maturity.
The Sun
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Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
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There comes a point in most people's lives when they want to settle down.
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These are deposited by the bugs before they settle down to digest their meals, and have a sweet odour described as ‘pepperminty’ or ‘musty’.
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She ate her dinner quite contentedly, and was just going to settle down comfortably to some thrilling tale of adventure when Br -- r-- r! went the bell, and she knew her fate had descended upon her.
The Governess
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However, by Christmas Miss Holland had reconsidered her position and decided she was too young to marry and settle down.
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Come on children, stop chatting and settle down please!
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Things eventually settle down and we learn that our hero is a vampire by the name of Selene, who has devoted her unlife to destroying lycanthropes.
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After all the recent excitement things have begun to settle down again.
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The fact is, they would probably choose to settle down somewhere cosy, preferably in the full glare of the public eye.
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I want to live a bit before I settle down.
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The beautiful actress, who has been dating Josh since falling for him on the set of new movie ‘The Black Dahlia’, is reportedly desperate to settle down.
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But after getting sweaty with punk rock, intimate with sonic terrorism and cuddling up to a retro surf sound, the trio have decided it's time to settle down.
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So Mrs. Sebright calls for us to settle down and to pull out our worksheets about atoms.
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Once he shows he can be bought, they settle down to a regular payment.
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The bus driver pulled over to get the commuters to settle down.
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Come on children, stop chatting and settle down please!
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Claudette couldn't concentrate on the epistle or the gospel, couldn't settle down to the rosary.
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All becomes clear later and we settle down onto familiar prison drama territory with mouthy cons, bent screws and idealistic governors.
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Oh, stop all this gallivanting about, and settle down to do something!
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I'm sure things will settle down soon.
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At the same time, it can suppress genes that make certain people overfussy about who they settle down with.
The Sun
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Both are attractive, funny, sexually confident, with no plans to marry or settle down any time soon.
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His brother suggested he marry a wealthy widow and settle down to write books.
Christianity Today
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One day I'll want to settle down and have a family.
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Eventually I'd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet.
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It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm.
Biographies of Working Men
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So is this why 30 something women find a gap in the dating scene and are unable to find someone of a similar age to settle down with?
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His mom hopes he'll settle down and start a family.
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Possibly it will convince me that it is time to get a proper job, settle down and get married and have kids and await my inevitable death.
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Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true. Laurell K. Hamilton
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And this is what we can settle down to in weeks ahead.
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A good way to avoid company, if I want to avoid it, thought Liir, as his spirit began once again to settle down into his body, or — put another way — as his little dreamlet ended and the sorrier sense of the world, even this pretty corner of it, flooded back in.
Son of a Witch
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I can say so many tough and macho things but when I actually settle down there, it's an entirely different story.
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The students of a good teacher pass their course, graduate and settle down with good jobs.
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She had found the man she wanted to settle down with just as her career was taking off on an unimaginable scale.
The Sun
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Now that I'm officially old I'll have to settle down, buy a pair of sensible shoes and get something magnificently practical like a winch.
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So setting aside for now any and all skepticism of the polymer's ability to significantly mitigate some future species-ending plague, might we expect biocidal fountains to proliferate soon: like CCTV cameras, littering your daily commute, and misting you from the moment you exit your house till you finally settle down on your office chair?
Archive 2006-12-01
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The heart-throb's reluctance to commit to marriage plans can't have helped matters, recently revealing he doesn't believe he has any ‘moral obligation’ to settle down and have a family.
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In these particular environments, the iron hydrolyzes essentially, as hydroxyls begin to agglomerate around the iron and settle down to the bottom of this lake material.
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He weaves his way in and out of my legs before deciding that the best place to settle down is underneath me.
The Sun
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He was politely told to get a steady girlfriend and settle down.
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Just a couple of months back Lynn was reputed to have talked him out of an early marriage because she felt he wasn't ready to settle down.
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He was tired of the merry-go-round of romance and longed to settle down.
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He wished he had chosen a career where he could settle down permanently with a wife.
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Education remains in a state of flux which will take some time to settle down.
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I'm not ready to settle down yet.
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Education remains in a state of flux which will take some time to settle down.
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Breathing in the sweet air again, I decided that I definitely liked it here, enough that I might actually settle down here.
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So there you go, my big sister, at the age of 37 has finally found someone she wants to settle down with.
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The sharp sound was so sudden that the horses nearest to him jumped and wouldn't settle down for at least five minutes.
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Wait until the children settle down before you start the lesson.
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Though born and brought up in one place, they were ready to settle down in another.
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It's relatively close and Wisconsin would be a nice quiet place to settle down.
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It was time for Dean to settle down and raise a family .
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When are you going to settle down and get a proper job ?
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In these particular environments, the iron hydrolyzes essentially, as hydroxyls begin to agglomerate around the iron and settle down to the bottom of this lake material.
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After their expulsion, the cacodaemons endeavored to settle down in various parts of the earth, but were always rejected, and out of revenge found pleasure in destroying the inhabitants of the earth.
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Back in New York in 1919, Kent was unable to settle down.
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David starts to feel the urge to settle down and ‘become part of a couple.’
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There comes a time in every dashing young bachelor's life when it is only proper to settle down and start a family.
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Why did people, after thousands of years as hunter-gatherers, settle down and start farming?
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New York was going to be my new home; I'd get a steady job and settle down, start a family.
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One such tongue-in-cheek invitation that has brought a lot of smiles, especially among those in the advertising industry here, is that of Shaji and Sini, who are to tie the nuptial knot in Kochi next week and settle down in Coimbatore.
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He's got to settle down and commit; or else chill out and be less possessive.
Times, Sunday Times
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My dear Art, I think it is much better that you just settle down and get a real job closer to home.
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In her naivety, she thought he would always be that untamable boy with no desire to settle down and make a commitment.
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After the spouses settle down, their close relatives mostly follow them.
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He's of an age when he ought to settle down.
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I was determined to settle down and carve out my destiny in my homeland.
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He needs to settle down and show maturity.
The Sun
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It likewise manifests the frankness of men who do not dilly-dally with terms, but who say what they mean, and who mean to settle down to a long, hard fight.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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Some claimed their land as freedmen and stayed where they were, others went to other provinces to settle down and farm there.
A TIME OF WAR
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There is a sad side to the play as well in that the central character, John Bosco McLaine is a rather pathetic creature who wants to settle down with a member of the opposite sex but has failed to do so.
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Bob Ho (Jackie Chan) is an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian.
4 Movie Clips from THE SPY NEXT DOOR Starring Jackie Chan, George Lopez, Billy Ray Cyrus and Amber Valletta – Collider.com
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Somewhat reassured, the group try to settle down to enjoy the rest of their vacation, unaware that the diseased man's body is face down in the reservoir, infecting their water supply…
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Take strong painkillers and see your doctor for further treatment if it doesn't settle down.
The Sun
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If the Chinese have the good sense to make some kind of amends, then it'll settle down.
The Bear and the Dragon
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The consequences of such changes are likely, initially, to lead to vociferous remonstrations, but research suggests that children will settle down and accept such changes within a few weeks.
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He was tired of the merry-go-round of romance and longed to settle down.
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And I'm not ready to settle down yet, or even to commit.
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The contents of the packet may settle down in travelling.
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At the beginning of Darwinia there are perhaps too many characters introduced for my taste, but we soon settle down and concentrate mainly on the fate of Guilford Law.
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When are you going to marry and settle down?
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It's a big job, dressing a tree properly, and it takes a couple of days for the arrangement to settle down, during which period there is a need for much tweaking of the decorations until there's no further improvement to be made.
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One day I'll want to settle down and have a family.
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Some claimed their land as freedmen and stayed where they were, others went to other provinces to settle down and farm there.
A TIME OF WAR
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I am beckoned by comfortable chairs on the veranda, then by the four-poster bed, then by the hammock strung across the corner, but know that if I settle down I may never get up in time to dive.
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It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
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He has given up his freewheeling lifestyle to settle down with his baby daughter.
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You simply settle down in a quiet place with a piece of unlined paper and a pen or pencil.
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She's too stubborn to settle down’ he said giving me a sideward smirk.
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She withdrew a perfume atomizer from her seemingly bottomless bag and gave it a few squeezes above him, letting the mist settle down over his face.
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Back at our riad, champagne corks pop and canapes are handed round as we settle down on comfortable couches overlooking the pool.
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At last, some good old trashy TV I can settle down to.
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He weaves his way in and out of my legs before deciding that the best place to settle down is underneath me.
The Sun
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I'm not ready to settle down yet.
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It only took a couple of weeks for things to settle down and it was young people themselves who suggested we breathalyse people at the gate, which is what we now do.
Coming up from the streets
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After traveling across country to California for a life changing year of study, she was ready to settle down permanently in the Sunshine State.
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Starring: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin In her first starring role, Esther Williams plays aquacade star Caroline Brooks who is getting ready to hang up her flippers and settle down with songwriter Steve Elliot (Skelton).
Home Theater Forum
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Shh! Settle down please! Now turn to page 57.
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On Day Three, the Jacobites could elect to scale the walls of the castle in an escalade complete with purpose built ladders for the game or settle down into a siege of the castle.
Archive 2008-07-01
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But while gay couples may be looking to settle down, some find life in Britain difficult.
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Do you think he's feeling tempted to finally settle down and live a steady existence?
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The result of all the investigations of this subject, appears to settle down into the hackneyed truism, that the passive verbs, and the moods and tenses, of some languages, are formed by inflections, or terminations either prefixed or postfixed, and of other languages, by the association of auxiliary verbs, which have not yet been contracted and made to coalesce as _terminations_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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When are you going to get married and settle down?
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It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.
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Too busy partying and making money to settle down and have family, they seem to say, well, you'll be sorry!
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When Lucy, a sprightly waitress with a song on her lips and in her heart, meets Adam, she gives up her ‘man-izing’ ways and wants to settle down.
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Becky's not ready to settle down with one man - she enjoys playing the field too much.
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If the kids don't settle down soon, I'll go up and read them the riot act.
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Almost the only material used for artificially heightening the apparent proportion of stearoptene is said to be spermaceti, which is easily recognizable from its liability to settle down in a solid cake, and from its melting at 122° Fahr., whereas stearoptene fuses at 91. 4° Fahr.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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The heart-throb's reluctance to commit to marriage plans can't have helped matters, recently revealing he doesn't believe he has any ‘moral obligation’ to settle down and have a family.
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Now the gentle giant is looking for love and hopes his new-found fame will help him find a leggy beauty to settle down with.
The Sun
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She's had her fling and now she's got to settle down.
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The wedding's off - she's decided she's too young to settle down.
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There was a feeling among business men and the intelligentzia generally that the Revolution had gone quite far enough, and lasted too long; that things should settle down.
Chapter 1. Background
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If your brother is not the sort to settle down, she may realise that theirs is a dead-end affair.
The Sun
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It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.
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Unable to drive properly while laughing, Derek pulled over to the side of the road to settle down.
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He weaves his way in and out of my legs before deciding that the best place to settle down is underneath me.
The Sun
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In her naivety, she thought he would always be that untamable boy with no desire to settle down and make a commitment.
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It's a dandy, well-appointed, small steam laundry. There's a start for you if you want to settle down.
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Making camp and starting a nice fire, we settle down to more of my nightly lessons.
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Since the harrowing scene with Elanor, he'd been unable to settle down even for a moment.
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Tom, when are you going to stop tearing around and settle down?
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He has given up his freewheeling lifestyle to settle down with his baby daughter.
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He should get a house and settle down.
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Maybe neither of them is the one you should settle down with.
The Sun
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It was time for Dean to settle down and raise a family .
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When are you going to settle down and get a proper job ?
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On one hand he could settle down for a life of monogamy with one of the world's most beautiful women.
The Sun
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Hopefully the swells will settle down a bit, before the wife starts filling in the chores list and the boaties can get off shore.
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They'd like to see their daughter settle down, get married, and have kids.
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Then you'll come home years later - tanned, cultured and a thousand times more intelligent that me - and settle down with a respectable man, have 2.4 children, a dog, a town house and cottage in the country.
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On one hand he could settle down for a life of monogamy with one of the world's most beautiful women.
The Sun
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Wednesday looks cool and blustery with showers, but there are signs that southern parts should settle down as high pressure moves in.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's got to settle down and commit; or else chill out and be less possessive.
Times, Sunday Times
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They may refuse to eat and find it hard to settle down at night and for naps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Find a nice girl and settle down, bring up some children, get a steady job in management.
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His brother suggested he marry a wealthy widow and settle down to write books.
Christianity Today
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It always takes the class a while to settle down at the start of the lesson.
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Or suggest somewhere halfway between the two towns to settle down within easier reach of both families.
The Sun
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He's just a drifter he can't settle down anywhere.
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But hopefully, after the next few weeks, when things settle down, we can start house-hunting and get our wives up.
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And when the day's work was over, I've seen the loppies settle down to a game of euchre.
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After the fry-up, the couple settle down on their poolside loungers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residential complexes rose as officers posted in Shimla decided to settle down there.
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A bedtime routine helps your baby to know what to expect, and to settle down ready for sleep at night.
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My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged, middle-class rut.
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In her first starring role, Esther Williams plays aquacade star Caroline Brooks who is getting ready to hang up her flippers and settle down with songwriter Steve Elliot (Skelton).
Home Theater Forum
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At around 10.30, after the departure of his dinner guests, he would settle down to two or three hours of work, frequently dictating beyond 2.30 am.
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Come on children, stop chatting and settle down please!
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I'd be surprised if he had thought he was coming back from the dead in order to settle down and make crochet bobble-hats.
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Many attacks settle down on their own but sometimes you need a course of antibiotics.
The Sun
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But with over five hundred men out for the count and the rest turning mutinous, he knew he had to find another place to settle down for the time being.
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It's one of those movies that celebrates vagrants at the expense of people who are settled down in life, but then expects us to be happy when the main vagrants in the story all decide to settle down at the end.
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I want to get boxing out of my system and settle down to enjoy family life.
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Did you settle down in the school?
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He and his littermates were born in a flowerbed, back behind a thick tangle of ferns and caladiums, just the kind of den to make a mama cat twitch her tail in satisfaction and settle down to go into labor.
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He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life.
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Deeply enchanted by the charming environment, he decided to settle down for good.
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But there were others who for a variety of reasons decided to settle down permanently in the US.
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He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity.
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Many attacks settle down on their own but sometimes you need a course of antibiotics.
The Sun
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Americans should settle down for two years of trench warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eventually I'd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet.
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What tends to happen is that students spend the first week of the course in a blind panic, but settle down by the second or third week.
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So many different ideas are milling about in my head, but I can't settle down to work on any one of them.
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He has given up his freewheeling lifestyle to settle down with his baby daughter.
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In 1984, he came down to Bangalore to settle down permanently.
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He's just a drifter he can't settle down anywhere.
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We walked in silence for a while, eventually finding an Elvis-Presley-themed café to settle down in.
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Education remains in a state of flux which will take some time to settle down.
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After the fry-up, the couple settle down on their poolside loungers.
Times, Sunday Times
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What tends to happen is that students spend the first week of the course in a blind panic, but settle down by the second or third week.
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I want to get boxing out of my system and settle down to enjoy family life.
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It's been really hectic here. When things settle down , I'll give you a call.
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It was a fair fight, they said, but the South had been starved out; one dark-eyed young South-Carolinian said, for his part he was going home to settle down, and if any body ever said "secesh" to him again, he meant to knock 'em over.
The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina.
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He was distinguished from his fellows by the fact that each year he grew more aware that he hadn't even a dim candle of talent; that he was ill-planned and unpurposed; that he would have to settle down to the ordinary gray limbo of jobs and offices -- as soon as he could get control of his chaotic desires.
The Job An American Novel
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My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down.
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Wait until the children settle down before you start the lesson.
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Almost the only material used for artificially heightening the apparent proportion of stearoptene is said to be spermaceti, which is easily recognizable from its liability to settle down in a solid cake, and from its melting at 122° Fahr., whereas stearoptene fuses at 91. 4° Fahr.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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I am a wayfarer, and I am not ready to settle down in one place for good.
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Harling and the notebook were resumed, and lest we should settle down too readily to monotony, a flutter down stream betrayed the whereabouts of the Black Dog, betrayed also a wretched little kelt (about 5 lb.), called in these parts a "kelt grilse.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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She thought that someday she would settle down.
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Once there he would preen himself and settle down quite quietly, giving my hair an affectionate tweak from time to time.
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You have to settle down to study now.
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Tara was willing to accept the bribe to settle down.
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Shh! Settle down please! Now turn to page 57.
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‘This was supposed to be our final home where we would settle down and bring up our son,’ he said.
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Taking the food out of our packs, and gathering some fresh fruit from a nearby tree, we settle down to a simple and satisfying meal.
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When we had arrived at a place near the last ones, we sat down; they indulged in snuff and conferred together, while I several times suggested that we should make our way over towards the tent and settle down for the night, for we were exhausted and needed rest, while the sick man could go and place himself in the care of the mamba.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Once he shows he can be bought, they settle down to a regular payment.
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After all the recent excitement things have begun to settle down again.
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I am hard pressed millions to be made till we settle down in some magical forest with best men at our wedding fred miller anthony posey benn bell from the west a few hijras as bridesmaid we could be blessed
Archive 2009-05-01
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If the kids don't settle down soon, I'll go up and read them the riot act.
