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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
settle .
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Examples
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The word settles into my blood like a block of ice.
Venomous 2008
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The word settles into my blood like a block of ice.
Venomous 2008
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After the debris settles from the sky, covering everyone, there is a big laugh and all go back to work.
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After the debris settles from the sky, covering everyone, there is a big laugh and all go back to work.
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Sure, we have to wait a day or two as the skin settles into new patterns and the muscles assume new roles.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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So by the time you get to be twelve or so, which is about when your brain settles into a groove, you tend to think that old memories will always be sort of blurry.
The Back Of The Refrigerator Is Miles Away, Yet You Do Not Know 2006
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The slang settles as the show progresses, and the punch the words deliver cannot go unnoticed.
TheDartmouth.com | America's Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799. 2008
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a new expression settles upon the features both of buyers and sellers; the dealers begin to move swiftly from one heap to another.
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I’ve found the best time to mop and dust is when it’s raining outside - because the rain settles the dirt for a while outside and everything stays clean for a little longer inside than it would have if it hadn’t rained.
Archive 2008-10-01 Will 2008
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I’ve found the best time to mop and dust is when it’s raining outside - because the rain settles the dirt for a while outside and everything stays clean for a little longer inside than it would have if it hadn’t rained.
Understanding Mom | Cleaning. Will 2008
jaime_d commented on the word settles
noun - wooden benches that can be used as chests. From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010