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How to use settlement in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Settlement means the act of settling. Example: “An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.”

Examples of settlement by meaning

nounThe act of settling.

  • settlement of debt

nounA community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

  • These villages, located south of Velyka Novosilka, hold tactical and symbolic significance, as these are the last settlements that Ukrainian forces recaptured during their counteroffensive in the summer of 2023.2024 May 23, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 22 May: NOT SO FAST! Ukrainian Forces STOP & COUNTERATTACK RUSSIANS in Urozhaine |...

More sentences with settlement

  • An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.From the entry advice
  • The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.From the entry arduous
  • She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.From the entry fixed
  • Plus many more settlements in France with affixes.From the entry Beaumont
  • Two years after the flood, my lawyer managed to hammer out a settlement with my insurance company over the damages.From the entry hammer out
  • To avoid negative publicity, we arrived at an out-of-court settlement.From the entry out-of-court
  • The terms of the settlement will remain under seal indefinitely.From the entry under seal
  • A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.From the entry failing
  • The settlement came after a ruling in June by Judge William Alsup of the U.S.2025 September 5, Cade Metz, “Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry William
  • Our family lived in a small settlement called Bor-Öndör, located in Hentii Province, for five years.2025, Baasanjav Terbish, “The Cat”, in Humans, Dogs and Other Beings: Myths, Stories, and History in the Land of Genghis Khan, Open Book…. From the entry Bor-Öndör
  • CNN has sought comment from the Town of Platteville and an attorney for Rios regarding the settlement.2024 June 4, Joe Sutton and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Colorado officials reach $8.5 million settlement with woman who was left handcuffed in a…. From the entry Platteville
  • Like Taiwan’s other old settlements, Yanshuei used to be a walled town.2022 January 21, Steven Crook, “Highways & Byways: Charming antiquity: Tainan’s Yanshuei District”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Yanshuei
  • The WTO dispute settlement mechanism is characterized by weaknesses such as non-retroactive damages.2020, Anu Bradford, “8. Is the Brussels Effect Beneficial?”, in The Brussels Effect. How the European Union Rules the World, Oxford…. From the entry damages
  • Calls to cut and run without paying a penny in the Brexit settlement are unlawful and unethical.2017 May 3, Helena Kennedy, “You can’t just cut and run from Europe, Theresa May – it’s illegal”, in The Guardian. From the entry cut and run
  • Grandfather and another man built the first Hokchia School on grandfather's section of the Hokchia settlement.2017, Stephen Ling, Growing Up Chinese, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15. From the entry Hokchia
  • Yenagoa was more town than city, a settlement of dwarf houses, roofs level with the raised road.2017, Chibundu Onuzo, Welcome to Lagos, Faber & Faber Ltd, pages 25-26. From the entry Yenagoa
  • Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times. From the entry halva
  • A settlement could impose new restrictions on wells tapping the bolson in both states.2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 21 Nov 2015. From the entry bolson
  • Kinmen’s second-largest settlement, SHANWAI (often referred to as Jinhu township), is mostly populated with young soldiers.2015 August, Simon Foster, Stephen Keeling, “The Taiwan Strait Islands”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), 3rd edition…. From the entry Jinhu
  • Near dusk, he arrived at a small settlement that served as a holiday village for Adelaidians.2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 83. From the entry Adelaidian
  • These private meetings were where differences were aired and settlements started to be fashioned.2013, Alan Rosenthal, The Best Job in Politics. From the entry drop-by
  • The date of the Disputation itself admits of tolerably exact settlement.2012, Archelaus, The Sacred Writings of Archelaus, →ISBN. From the entry Archelaus
  • A focus for disaffected Ricardians, Margaret hated Henry and she detested the new political settlement.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 23. From the entry Ricardian
  • Afro-Indian settlements were established at least since the early 16th century onwards.2008, Carole Boyce Davies, Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, volume 1, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 563. From the entry Afro-Indian
  • The centre of Birštonas elderate which consists of 46 villages is Birštonas individual-farm settlement.2007, “Birštonas Municipality Territory — the Perl^([sic]) of Nemunas Loops”, in Rimantas Šlajus, opere citato, page 354/2. From the entry elderate
  • The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier.2004, Bill Nasson, Rob Siebörger, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa), Turning points in history, Ste. From the entry transcolonial
  • First, a civilian settlement is not a “need of the occupying army” for which requisition is permitted.2002, David Kretzmer, The Occupation of Justice, page 77. From the entry requisition
  • The metamediary also provides multiple services—such as payment settlement, fulfillment, quality assurance, and procurement management.2001, Mahendra Hundal, Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry metamediary
  • Coastal languages were usually the first to go, with settlement patterns matching patterns of extinction.2000, Juliette Blevins, Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Oceanic linguistics special publication; 30), Honolulu…. From the entry ghost language
  • His home was in a little settlement of neat mud and thatch huts.1997, Lakshmi Mukundan, African tales from Tendai's grandmother. From the entry Tendai
  • From the Zaporizhzhya Airport, Leonid Kuchma went to the urban settlement Stepnohirsk.1996 January 31, United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service, “Kuchma: 1996 ‘Turning Point’ in Ukraine Economy” (AU3101100396), in…. From the entry Stepnohirsk
  • I got so sick of sending troops to outlying settlements I deleted the game once).1995 November 17, sshah@intranet.on.ca [Sunir Shah], “Network's effect on turn-based strategy game”, in rec.games.design (Usenet)…. From the entry Civi
  • He spent the years after the Maccabean victory pillaging whatever small settlements happened to strike his fancy.1988 December 4, Liz Galst, “Lesbian Maccabee Unmasked!”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 7. From the entry bubbe meise
  • The settlements of a refugitive nature (2a) are hard to be determined.1988, Balcanica - Volumes 18-19, page 197. From the entry refugitive
  • He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5. From the entry found
  • Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red.1982, The Rotarian, volume 140, number 1, page 39. From the entry red
  • On the waterfront, just outside the foreign settlements, the streets swarmed with filth-ridden beggars and coolies.[1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “Shanghai, 1932–1933”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern…. From the entry Zhabei
  • Big Sur simply did not lend itself to the massive settlement that characterized the rest of California.1979, Donald G. Pike, Big Sur, KC Publications, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry Big Sur

Meaning of settlement

  1. noun The act of settling.
  2. noun The state of being settled.
  3. noun A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.

Full definition of settlement

Questions about settlement in a sentence

How do you use settlement in a sentence?
Settlement is used as a noun. For example: “An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.”
What is a short sentence with settlement?
“settlement of debt”
What does settlement mean?
Settlement means the act of settling.

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