settled
IPA: sˈɛtʌɫd
adjective
- Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
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Examples of "settled" in Sentences
- For the last week he had been what he called settled at Hampstead.
- The title settled upon -- the only one that explains its object -- is
- And will remain "settled" law. yes, but what will the religious right do?
- His expression settled into something sad and hard as he looked at Ingrid’s face, and he handed it back to me.
- Soon after, the label settled into an expansive office compound on Sunset Boulevard that encompassed an entire city block.
- Even of those who are more what they call settled, the greater portion is less, probably, at home than whisking about the world.
- As she watched, a bevy of emotions colored his expression from happiness to remorse to guilt before his expression settled into a cool mask.
- When they passed on, the title settled upon their only child, whose loyalty to his biker family caused him to will it to the organization upon his demise.
- Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950) Nine balsa-wood logs, a big square sail, a bamboo "cabin" with a roof made of banana leaves — thus did Norwegian Heyerdahl and his companions set sail from Peru toward Polynesia to prove a point: that the South Pacific was settled from the east.
- Since Natura had been in what they call a settled state in the world, it had always been his custom to distinguish the anniversary of that day which gave him birth, by providing a polite entertainment for his friends and kindred: he had now attained to his fortieth year, and though it had been that in which he had known more poignant disquiets, than in any one of his whole life before; yet thinking that to neglect the observation of it now, would give occasion for remarks on his reasons for so doing, he resolved to treat it with the usual ceremony.
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