Sentence examples for settled for the small from inspiring English sources

South plunged into Blackwood and settled for the small slam.

I was in my late 20s and ready to live alone, but as a writer in New York City I had settled for the smaller bedroom in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn for a 40 percent share of the rent.

Nevada officials, believing that groundwater resources in the southern part of the state were sufficient for future growth, were more concerned with securing a large amount of the dam's power supply than water from the Colorado; thus they settled for the smallest allocation of all the states in the Colorado River Compact.

People often settle for the small victories of a big name on their résumé or a certain salary and forgo the deeper and more important joys of figuring out what they really care about and aligning their life with it.

If we take the risk, if we can settle for the small glimpses, if we can live our life as it unfolds as a gift from Love Itself, we may go in more wondrous directions than we ever thought possible.

So don't settle for the small one.

If your target price is less than $1,000, you'll likely have to settle for the smallest of the bunch.

Fans of sweet, meaty Dungeness crab are going to have to settle for the smaller Chesapeake blue crabs for now.

One of the suits was settled for a small sum, and the other was dismissed.

The company sought our legal counsel and settled for a small fraction of what the BSA originally sought.

The company sought our legal counsel and settled for a small fraction of what the BSA originally sought.