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Example sentences for "settlement"

Lexicographically close words:
settinge; settings; settis; settle; settled; settlements; settlemint; settler; settlers; settles
  1. The largest settlement is at San Buenaventura, where perhaps 20 individuals live near the outskirts of the town.

  2. The two languages possess a considerable number of words in common, but a more thorough investigation is requisite for the settlement of the question than has yet been given.

  3. It will be necessary for me to dwell on some incidents in the first settlement of this country, and I propose that we first prepare and enjoy the Christmas-tree.

  4. Her economic settlement remained practically unchanged until the development of machinery altered those social conditions for which it had been adapted.

  5. It does not appear that any legislation followed upon this parliamentary action, but provisions now begin to appear for the settlement of disputes between masters and workmen, and also between brethren of the Gild.

  6. There was, he asserted, an agreement that Montrose should use his interest with the Earl for a settlement of his honours and estates upon Claverhouse, who, on his side, had bound himself to make over the estates privately to Montrose.

  7. The College Settlement Association, by way of parenthesis, was in the habit of distributing three hundred dolls among the students every year before Christmas, to be dressed and sent to the settlement in New York.

  8. Their farm had been owned in the family since the settlement of the country, and the house which Martin occupied was very old.

  9. But at the outset, he said, any settlement of the particular case is involved in “a preliminary question of unsettled fact.

  10. This was in the year 1607, when two hundred and forty-three settlers landed, and made the first settlement at a point which they called Jamestown, in honour of the new English king, James I.

  11. The Dutch had, very soon after the discovery of the Cape, made a settlement there, which was known as Cape Colony.

  12. Kinbrae was a small settlement some ten or twelve miles south-east of Crescent Lake, near to the head-waters of a tributary stream flowing into the Qu'Appelle River, after pursuing a fairly straight course for about fifty miles.

  13. The story of Australian settlement is of enthralling interest, and the tales of the early explorers furnish a wonderful record of courage, endurance, and dogged perseverance.

  14. Though she had been brought up tenderly and delicately, she had done the house-work, with the assistance of Ella and myself, at the settlement during the summer.

  15. Kit Cruncher; he is at the settlement now, and has known me for eleven years.

  16. We must wait in patience and with confidence in our leaders for the final settlement which the future will bring.

  17. All the cabinets, in particular England, accept this view; only Russia has declared that in the settlement of this conflict, she must be allowed to express her wishes.

  18. It is impossible to get rid of the suspicion that Germany thought Austria might accept the proposal; in any case, Germany deliberately shattered the last chance of a settlement by her demand that Russia should demobilize.

  19. A Tale of the Early Settlement of Acadia.

  20. He had taken no notice of small matters; but if anything really wrong had gone on, Jan was sure to hear of it, and a thorough settlement with the offender inevitably followed.

  21. Celeste saw the cabins along the cañon valley, perched here and there upon the hills, and at last discovered the group of buildings that marked the settlement the miners were pleased to call the "City" of Last Chance.

  22. He seemed in no hurry, rode slowly, made long noonday camps and camped early at night, so that it was the afternoon of the third day before he came in view of the scattered settlement of Last Chance Claim.

  23. Out of the little settlement rolled the coach, followed by a cheer from the crowd gathered to see it depart, for the going and coming of the coaches in border places are events of great moment to the dwellers there.

  24. The time of its being missed coincides well enough with that of the early settlement of New England.

  25. It is easy to see, in fact, that the document had something to do with the marriage settlement of John Paston and Margaret Mauteby, which was about 1440.

  26. The Norwegians made their original settlement in this parish of Tingwall.

  27. He probably alludes to the final settlement of accounts with the Marquis of Abercorn.

  28. Mr. Turnbull is a Jedburgh man by birth, but a Zetlander by settlement and inclination.

  29. We have other items of testimony that reveal to us the deep-laid plans, the vast influence used, and efforts made, to prevent the American settlement of this country, which shall be brought to light as we proceed.

  30. This located that mission under the direct supervision and inspection of the Hudson's Bay Company, and, at the same time, placed the American settlement south of the Columbia River.

  31. An English sailor, by the name of Richard or Dick McCary, found his way into the settlement from the Rocky Mountains.

  32. If this is true, as against the American, what right has the Hudson's Bay Company to complain and ask pay for what had been rendered worthless to them by the American settlement of the country?

  33. McLaughlin's liquors, and received the polite attentions of the gentlemen of the Hudson's Bay Company with far more pleasure than he looked into or regarded the wants of this infant settlement of his countrymen.

  34. There was also in the settlement another young man, who about that time had taken a native wife and wished to locate at the mouth of the Columbia River.

  35. But, as our settlement increases in numbers, so our difficulties increase in number and importance; and, unless we can have laws to govern us that will be respected and obeyed, our situation will be a deplorable one.

  36. The original settlement of Romulus is said to have been limited to the Palatine mount.

  37. With his usual social insight, Herchmer indicates that the Mormon settlement in southern Alberta, with its possible polygamy, will be the better of some oversight in the interests of British law.

  38. It seemed to be able to stretch itself over constantly growing areas of settlement and to meet the situation created by the increasing tide of immigration that was flowing over the great new West.

  39. I am interested in the history of the Force, how it was organized forty-six years ago, at a time when treaties were being made with the Indians, whereby the lands of the North-West were made available for settlement by the white people.

  40. On account of their warlike disposition, and their association with the massacres south of the line, their presence was prejudicial to settlement by white people.

  41. Thus did the Police fulfil the vision of Butler and make the settlement of the great areas not only possible but speedy.

  42. This was mainly due to the fact that settlement had not been making its way into that region.

  43. As early as 1804 the power of the waters was known to white men, and a settlement had already begun there at that time.

  44. Reluctantly his friends gave up the search and went on; but when they reached a settlement they sent back a rescue party.

  45. Anyway, you may depend upon these terms of settlement being carried out.

  46. The settlement of the Dingle action was a confession of weakness.

  47. Several large orders had been placed, proof that the terms of the settlement mentioned by Locke in his letter were being carried out.

  48. Without admitting Dingle's claim at all, we considered a settlement the easiest way.

  49. Crooks agreeing with me that we should accept the terms of settlement offered, which, however, did not proceed from Garwood directly.

  50. A settlement sprang up at Watauga, the site of one of Hamish's old camps as he had journeyed on his fruitless search for those who had made his home and the wilderness a sort of paradise.

  51. They had no clear idea of what Phœnicia really was, but imagined it to be an island, evidently confounding it with our colony of Chittim, or with our settlement at Chalcis, which was considerably nearer to them.

  52. More likely it was founded by piratical hordes from the African coast, who, it is known, established a settlement here in the eighth century.

  53. In following the road one does not come to a town or indeed a settlement of any notable size until he reaches Agay, on the other side of the promontory.

  54. This first settlement was on the Ile St. Geniez, which now forms the official quarter of the triple town.

  55. This was the case at least when the settlement was founded, and the poet Brieux built himself a house and put up over the gateway the significant words: "Je suis venu ici pour être seul.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settlement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; acquittal; adjustment; agreement; alienation; ally; amortization; anchorage; appanage; arrangement; assignation; assignment; bargain; barter; benefit; binder; body; camp; cash; caste; cession; chieftaincy; claim; clan; class; clearance; closing; colonization; colony; common; commonweal; commonwealth; commune; community; composition; compromise; concession; conclusion; consignment; conveyance; county; deal; decision; deliverance; delivery; demise; demonstration; deposit; determination; discharge; disposal; disposition; domain; dominion; dot; dower; dowry; duchy; dukedom; earnest; easement; empire; endowment; equity; establishment; estate; exchange; family; fixation; foundation; gens; giving; habitation; holding; inauguration; initiation; installation; installment; interest; investiture; investment; jointure; kingdom; land; limitation; liquidation; mandate; moiety; mooring; nation; nationality; occupancy; occupation; onus; order; pact; part; paying; peopling; percentage; plantation; polis; polity; population; portion; possession; power; principality; proof; protectorate; province; quittance; rapprochement; realm; reconciliation; remittance; reparation; republic; residence; resolution; retirement; right; sale; satellite; satisfaction; settlement; signature; society; solution; stake; state; sultanate; superpower; surrender; terms; territory; title; totem; trading; transference; transmission; transmittal; treaty; trust; understanding; use; polity; population; portion; possession; power; principality; proof; protectorate; province; quittance; rapprochement; realm; reconciliation; remittance; reparation; republic; residence; resolution; retirement; right; sale; satellite; satisfaction; settlement; signature; society; solution; stake; state; sultanate; superpower; surrender; terms; territory; title; totem; trading; transference; transmission; transmittal; treaty; trust; understanding; use; yielding