Sentence examples for tried to settle down from inspiring English sources

On his return to India, Nehru at first had tried to settle down as a lawyer.

When it was 3-0, I just tried to settle down and keep it right there and give my guys a chance.

Mr. Hawkins grew tired of having to play what he called "that weird, voodoo, black, screaming Vincent Price image," and in the early 1960's he moved to Hawaii, where he bought a bar and tried to settle down.

"So I do try to settle down.

They were the nucleus of the new speaker's leadership team, there to try to settle down the losers and to consolidate the win.

"People try to settle down in a place that they know they're going to have for the beginning of the school year.

After the devastation of a divorce and the tragic death of his son, Nordan tries to settle down with his second wife, Annie.

Arterton and Ronan play a 200-year-old mother and daughter vampire duo, trying to settle down in a scruffy old English seaside town, while men, both human and vampire, get in their way.

Once so daring, "Sex and the City" has lost its edge as the characters have focused on trying to settle down (however unsuccessfully) rather than on the next seduction.

That three-day journey sparked a much bigger adventure lasting, on and off, until 2008, when he decided just as suddenly that he should "grow up and maybe try to settle down".

Working in initially broad strokes that become progressively more nuanced as the narrative deepens, Mr. Gordon-Levitt explores what happens to Don Jon when he tries to settle down with a woman (a terrific Scarlett Johansson, doing one of her finest interpretations of a succulent peach), whose realness poses a challenge to Don Jon's reliance on his plastic pleasures.