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Example sentences for "settled back"

  • I waited until I had made myself comfy in a big arm chair which Experience had ready for me, and while she made a cup of tea over our alcohol lamp I settled back to enjoy Will's message.

  • After he had ordered the most expensive items on the menu, he settled back in his chair, toyed with his fork, looked at me searchingly, then broke out laughing.

  • For the first time that day I settled back to something approaching a state of composure.

  • Hitt, erstwhile Presbyterian divine, explorer, and gentleman of leisure, as he settled back in his armchair in the fashionable Weltmore apartments and exhaled a long stream of tobacco smoke through his wide nostrils.

  • Having delivered himself of this oracular statement, the youth adjusted his monocle and settled back as if he had given finality to a weighty argument.

  • He settled back in his chair and groaned aloud.

  • As he settled back with a half moan, he felt something cold slipped into the box beside him, and the girl's voice whispered: "Your revolver.

  • Wah Lee said nothing, but, slipping off his silken jacket, settled back at his ease.

  • Humphrey, glad of a brief respite, settled back in his swivel chair.

  • Presently a near cliff came between him and the higher view and, with a lift and drop of his square shoulders, he settled back in his chair.

  • Mrs. Weatherbee, who had started to rise, settled back in her chair with a smile.

  • At this he settled back in his seat, laughing.

  • The train started, and he settled back in his seat.

  • That," said Curlie as he settled back in his chair, "in my estimation ends the night's entertainment.

  • Curlie flashed a short message in code, giving the name of their boat and its present location, then, with the receiver tightly clamped over his ears, he settled back in his chair.

  • And now," said Joe addressing Curlie as he settled back to a seat on one of the gas-filled tubes, "you can test out what you said once about keeping your radiophone dry and tuned up under any and every circumstance.

  • He settled back on the sofa and began twirling his hat with his hand.

  • As he settled back in his chair he passed his hand nervously over his mouth, as if his lips were dry.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came over; capital invested; five horizontal; fixed charges; forty minutes; had never before seen; her sister; literary language; living nature; made sure; many persons; milk and; moderate oven for about; more good; organic disease; our situation; par les; past experience; push button; said before; settled back; settled down; settled himself; settled right; three tons