Example Sentences

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Something I am very proud of is this sense of settledness and calmness, there aren’t other things going on in the background that are distracting me.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2014

Have ambition, and drive, and health and settledness and material success become so ascendant and romanticized that the lost woman is obscure or inscrutable or irrelevant?

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2013

He says: "Notwithstanding that it had been quite impossible to drive them into a little conscious settledness of memory, I finally reckoned on a miracle to be wrought by my own acquired dexterity as conductor."

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

There is something absolutely distinctive about the Tartars and one feels a certain civilization and settledness that is different from all the other villages I have seen.

From Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Moukhanoff, Michael

Though the brow and the beard, and the steadiness of the head and settledness of the step indicated mature age, yet the blue, bright, but still quiescent eye offered a very striking contrast.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman