Example Sentences

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The company has been settling its labor lawsuits.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2019

This week the pop star has been settling a score of her own in a Denver courthouse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2017

Her top priority has been settling in 11-year-old son Barron - the first boy in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. more than 50 years ago.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2017

The rest of the family has been settling in as well.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2016

But the fact remains that Eve certainly regretted it, and Adam, one would suppose, must have, for he has been settling dressmaker's accounts ever since!

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)