Sentence examples for settling for someone from inspiring English sources

If you can't find that person, you may be lonely, but settling for someone who is less than that is far more damaging.

John McCain chose his running mate as a knee-jerk reaction, settling for someone he met only this year and interviewed only once as a potential running mate.

The increasingly dark storyline – episode eight was filled with the imagery of death and there has been much speculation about Pete's possible suicide – resembles a John Cheever short story, detailing the price you pay for settling for someone else's dream and ensuring you feel for Pete, flaws and all.

But I still don't find the idea of "settling for" someone appealing.

My seemingly unorthodox preference for being alone rather than settling for someone I'm not in love with seems to confound my friends.

8. Would you settle for someone who has children?

She has settled for someone she can control and keep, someone who will serve her desires but demand nothing for himself.

That will, they feel, not attract the best man to the job, and it will also suggest that their company has settled for someone less than average.

Mrs. Bachmann told several hundred members of the Faith and Freedom Coalition that social conservatives "don't have to settle" for someone who does not exemplify their values.

After all, getting rid of Obama is the ultimate goal for Tea Partiers, so they will settle for someone who isn't the best-looking guy at the dance, to use a Santorum line.

That did not deter some advisers from predicting that he would settle for someone who is safely anti-abortion, like Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma, Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska or Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee.