settling down in English

establishment; falling to the bottom; inhabiting; calming dow

Use "settling down" in a sentence

1. She seems incapable of settling down.

2. 8 But like a lot of his rowdy friends, he is settling down.

3. The bus rolled over several times before settling down at the bottom of the hill.

4. It moved several times between temporary accommodations, until settling down on Xinzha Road in September 1939.

5. Her people moved with the north wind from village to village... dispensing ancient remedies... never settling down.

6. Ruth saw Boaz settling down for the night. The time had come to put Naomi’s plan into action.

7. 2. (a) What accounts for a period of darkness settling down upon the professed followers of Jesus Christ?

8. The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.

9. 25 The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.

10. There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.

11. This law exists both to preserve the natural balance of existence and to prevent the Abidan from settling down in lesser worlds and ruling like gods.

12. When lockdown first started, The Accidentals had to make the harsh switch from being on the road, constantly touring, to settling down and making music from their home studio.

13. We moved into the living room, settling down on facing sofas as Billowingly comfortable as a Condon heroine, with the magnum standing tall on a coffee table between us

14. A spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement

15. (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë) As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming Cicatrised

16. Resembling a bandbox 1902, Anna Chapin Ray, Phebe, Her Profession‎[1]: Fancy Archie Holden, after having all the Rocky Mountains for his workshop, coming back and settling down into one of these Bandboxy little towns! 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen‎[2]: The alforjas, or saddle-bags, of the guide were strengthened by a stock of cold

17. We Alighted from the train and I stood nervously as my mother and her one-time true love embraced awkwardly.: Settling down with a cup of tea and the sports section of the Sunday paper, my eye Alighted on an article.: A man travelling on a northbound Northern Line train stabbed a woman as he Alighted from the train at Euston.: His gaze Alighted on the journalist Eleanor Mills, by chance the