Thesaurus / settle down

settle down

How to use settle down in a sentence

As night began to settle down over the land, the Queen Elizabeth seemed to feel the time had come to give full vent to her wrath.

He found all well on reaching home and prepared to settle down with a feeling of ability to the work of translation.

ROBERT MOFFATDAVID J. DEANE

What we want to know is whats all this mystery-game—and, most important, when do we settle down and sleep?

Thyrsis saw clearly that he could not settle down to hard work while they were shut up there.

Trevor waited till the headmaster had gone back to his library, gave him five minutes to settle down, and then went in.

THE GOLD BATP. G. WODEHOUSE

Here he determined to settle down, and devote himself with more ardour than ever to the practice of his favourite instrument.

When she finally got broody she was given seventeen eggs and allowed to settle down to the task of incubating Christmas dinners.

It was early in the afternoon when they arrived, so they had plenty of time to settle down before night.

You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.

DRACULABRAM STOKER

In a minute or two the gulls would settle down again to their meal, and again Oscar would charge and rout them.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985