Sentence examples for settle for say from inspiring English sources

If the Yankees failed to sign Lee, Brown said, they could settle for, say, Matt Garza, who could be available by trade if Tampa Bay would be willing to trade with a division rival.

While other potential opponents — like Austin Beutner, who stepped down as deputy mayor to focus on his campaign, or Wendy Greuel, the city controller — have to settle for, say, a fund-raiser in Venice or a meet-and-greet in the San Fernando Valley, Mr. Garcetti has, for a moment, a prime-time, national stage on which to look mayoral.

There is almost no danger of a customer's ordering Plantain Pulled Turkey Soup with Strawberry BBQ Rice only to find out that there isn't any more Plantain Pulled Turkey Soup and he might have to settle for, say, Mashed Potato Radish Soup.

You could settle for, say, the premium leather seats, adding $890; the cold-weather group, which adds $500 for four heated seats; and the HID headlamps for $500.

I'd settle for saying it's flat.

When Kidd finally was ready to leave, going to Dallas in February 2008, he did not settle for saying pretty please.

I can never say "thank you" enough, so I'll just settle for saying 'I love you' instead".

Rodriguez went from an annual salary of about $5 million to $25 million when he could have settled for, say, $18 million to stay in Seattle.

Messrs Card and Krueger no longer insist that the higher minimum wage pushed employment up; they have settled for saying that (contrary to the standard model) it "probably had no effect".

But the more experienced lads said: 'Sit tight for five minutes.' We'll settle for 1-0," said John McGreal.

"We knew right from the beginning that we would race for gold and not settle for silver," said Gröbler of the four.