Sentence examples for settled for the local from inspiring English sources

I settled for the local Three Horses beer and some grilled zebu, the hump-backed Madagascar ox that eats cactus.

Most Hollywood films that required desert scenes settled for the local Oxnard dunes north of Los Angeles, but von Stroheim insisted on authenticity.

On the other hand, if you're more of a park stroller, you may need to settle for the local, more common types of bird.

Roasted yak rib-eye with fiddlehead ferns sounded tempting but I settled for the roast local pork cutlet with sweet and sour braised cabbage, though the juxtaposition of the words local and pork sent my mind back to the Do Chhu Valley.

The government eventually settled for the creation of local development agencies.

The United States settled for the bronze.

So we settled for the Trade Center.

Irvine settled for the National Invitation Tournament.

For better or for worse, imagine a near future in which your avatar can attend high school in a Second Life-like environment, your body no longer required to sit quietly in a row and your mind no longer obliged to settle for what the local district can offer.

4. JOE MAUER Minnesota, 2001 Like the Braves in 1990, the Twins settled for a local position player instead of a hyped pitcher.

But, with royal medical records better guarded than they used to be, the region has settled for promoting local bodegas with a more conventional ruta del vino through the province's three main wine regions.