Sentence examples for barely settled from inspiring English sources
She'd barely settled in before a crisis erupted.
It has barely settled into its Westminster offices before abandoning it".
Many plantings had obviously just been transplanted, and others were barely settled in.
We've barely settled on our cushions but debunking has already begun.
He had barely settled when the loudspeaker began again "Mr. Johnson!
But W. had barely settled into the Oval when Backseat clambered into the front seat.
Jack Walker's millions would barely settle the tip on a night out with the oil barons fuelling City's identity shift today.
If you were to run English history since the Roman empire on fast forward, you would see wave after wave of invaders arriving by ship, depositing new words into the language and new hair colours into the gene pool – but barely settling before they embark on new ships to go and find new places to colonise and trade with.
Whether Nicolas has turned a financial corner we cannot say, but he was certainly singing for his supper on a US chatshow this week, barely settling into his seat before telling David Letterman how his cat Lewis had just adored the bag of magic mushrooms he'd kept in his fridge back in the day.
Fewer people went to the movies in 2011 than any year since Al Gore invented the internet; our nation's multiplexes are in the throes of an epidemic called sequelitis; and the Academy could barely settle on a host for Sunday's Oscars.
This is central China, and a remote part of the mountains of northwestern Hunan province, until lately seldom visited and indeed until 50 years ago barely even settled.
