settlings
IPA: sˈɛtɫɪŋz
noun
- sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
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Examples of "settlings" in Sentences
- I've seen that in many other settlings where people have been displaced.
- And though I have trusted her since I had 'settlings' and all that, it has always been with a certain reserve.
- I have some old papers that want copying and settlings, and you shall sit here and do that just for an employment.
- A bitter divorce ensued, and it was reported that Mr. Cleese paid $20.6 million in cash and assets to Ms. Faye during divorce settlings.
- As they do every year the city is digging out our settlings ponds next to my house so the water will drain efficiently to our water table.
- Of their work — patrolling the roads, settlings disputes, standing in at the assizes, prosecuting criminals — the work that is their duty according to the law of the land, this work the reeves of Argent Hall have given up.
- When the liquid begins to simmer slightly, and just before it fairly boils, all the scum is removed by means of a long-handled skimmer, and is emptied into the pan with the "settlings," and both these are afterwards utilized in the manufacture of vinegar.
- The memoir indulges in gossip about everyone from Garbo to Frederico Fellini to the assassins of JFK, and there's a few last-minute score settlings with the late Randy Shilts of the "San Francisco Chronicle" and Fred Kaplan who recently wrote a bad and inaccurate biography of Vidal.
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