SETTLEMENT in a Sentence
Learn SETTLEMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
80 example sentences for SETTLEMENT, such as:
1. All the settlement was talking about it.
2. She saw it now as a toiling new settlement.
3. Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
4. They failed to agree on the terms of a settlement.
5. Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement.
2. She saw it now as a toiling new settlement.
3. Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
4. They failed to agree on the terms of a settlement.
5. Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SETTLEMENT
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settlement
n. a community of people smaller than a town
n. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 It was the builder's custom to pay at the end of three months, and there was no precedent between the two men for a cash settlement.
2 But during the years before Gerald married Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowly pushed northward.
3 But they must be at least ten miles down the road toward Jonesboro, probably near the little settlement of Rough and Ready.
4 And in the morning I set out for the nearest settlement and it was thirty miles away.
5 They say that Shantytown settlement on the Decatur road is just full of mean darkies and you'd have to pass right by it.
6 As she drew near the path that led down through the bare trees into the creek bottom where the Shantytown settlement was, she clucked to the horse to quicken his speed.
7 Then she heard footsteps coming up the path from the settlement and a sigh of relief went through her lips.
8 It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
9 She saw it now as a toiling new settlement.
10 Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
11 He had relatives in Bismarck, a German settlement to the north of us, but for a year now he had been working for grandfather.
12 Ole lived in a leaky dugout somewhere at the edge of the settlement.
13 When she got back to the Norwegian settlement, her poor feet were as hard as hoofs.
14 All the settlement was talking about it.
15 In every frontier settlement there are men who have come there to escape restraint.
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 Nurses refused to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation.
2 They were able to achieve a settlement without using military force.
3 The US administration would like to see a negotiated settlement to the war.
4 They failed to agree on the terms of a settlement.
5 Simons sent his attorney to meet with the ranchers in hopes that they could still come to an amicable settlement.
6 They mediated a settlement between labour and management.
7 Union leaders and company bosses will meet tomorrow in an attempt to reach a settlement.
8 After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.
9 Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
10 The question of the peace settlement is likely to figure prominently in the talks.
11 He mediated a settlement between labor and management.
12 Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.
13 The management and unions have reached a settlement over new working conditions.
14 The media played up the prospects for a settlement.
15 Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement.