Sentence examples for settle for sitting from inspiring English sources

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I just wanted to curl up in the bucket, but I had to settle for sitting on a chair with my legs submerged, my body shaking uncontrollably.

Having failed to prove I was in a good physical condition, I had to settle for sitting half-naked on the side of the river just like any common loser.

Having failed to prove I was in a good physical condition, I had to settle for sitting on the side of the river half-naked – just like any common loser.

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But in the years since I settled down at a desk, I've never settled for sitting still.

In the social media age, an immediate response is vital, even if viewers often have to settle for Lendl sitting stony-faced, looking as if he would rather be playing golf.

We don't want to just settle for a draw or sitting in and making it difficult - we want to go and express ourselves.

Never settle for being lax or sitting on your assets.

So I had to settle for the next best thing: sitting at a garden table just outside the office while the building next door's being torn down by an assortment of incredibly heavy machinery.

Jinnah had alwaysaspired to something grander: Bombay was hisbeloved city; he had merely settled for Pakistan.Musharraf recalls sitting on a wall alongthe road of Jinnah's funeral cortege, a youngboy weeping over the death of the great man.

A by-election in Glasgow East triggered by the resignation of David Marshall saw the Labour party struggle to appoint a candidate, eventually settling for Margaret Curran, a sitting MSP in the Scottish Parliament.

If they get Class A shares, don't settle for Class B. Should you be sitting on the next Yahoo and want to stay, you will have a bigger voice in the company.

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