Sentence examples similar to we couldn't settle down from inspiring English sources

One day after recess, the class was very agitated and couldn't settle down.

"He was a typical boy who couldn't settle down," his stepmother said.

She tired any number of places but couldn't settle down anywhere.

Then I went back to the two-handed double-page-opened position – even describing it makes it seem like an obscure sort of manoeuvre, rather than a natural function – but I still couldn't settle down.

In preschool, entranced by Mario Bros. on Nintendo, he invented and acted out competitions with Mario and Luigi, whom he called "the Widgie". When he couldn't settle down for nap time in kindergarten, the computer teacher led him to the lab, where he spent the hour racking up magic coins.

But I couldn't settle down and in August 1948 I joined the regular army as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery.

They couldn't settle down, and they just couldn't "get it".

As a young woman I could not settle down but kept moving, wondering where I should be.

"We knew we could not settle for less than that".

We could not settle in San Francisco, a place I love more than any other.

"It was thought that if a system doesn't settle down and come to equilibrium, you couldn't really say that it is in a phase.