Sentence examples for settled their bets from inspiring English sources

So it happens that our fictional gamblers settled their bets.

It's the people who don't visit the site regularly who are typing "best books all time" into Google - spending an average of four minutes settling their bet, or gazing in wonder at the strangeness of it all, or whatever - and, though it galls me to say it, for a minority taste like literature, that's an audience we can't match.

(Four states settled their lawsuits separately).

The publishers have all settled their cases.

Ultimately the characters settle their differences.

They must settle their conflicts peacefully.

Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, settled a bet in 1872 by showing, with a single photographic negative, that a horse has four feet off the ground at the trot.

The crimes - which took place over five years - included cutting off the limbs of their victims and cutting open pregnant women to settle bets over the sex of their unborn children, he said.

Still hedging their bets?

They're hedging their bets.

They were covering their bets.