Sentence examples for I couldn't settle down from inspiring English sources

But I couldn't settle down and in August 1948 I joined the regular army as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery.

As a young woman I could not settle down but kept moving, wondering where I should be.

Then I went back to the two-handed double-page-opened position – even describing it makes it seem like an obscure sort of manoeuvre, rather than a natural function – but I still couldn't settle down.

One day after recess, the class was very agitated and couldn't settle down.

"He was a typical boy who couldn't settle down," his stepmother said.

She tired any number of places but couldn't settle down anywhere.

In preschool, entranced by Mario Bros. on Nintendo, he invented and acted out competitions with Mario and Luigi, whom he called "the Widgie". When he couldn't settle down for nap time in kindergarten, the computer teacher led him to the lab, where he spent the hour racking up magic coins.

They couldn't settle down, and they just couldn't "get it".

I couldn't settle into my shots".

I couldn't settle and was fired again.

And yet I couldn't settle for a yes man, either.