7 sentences with 'settling'
Example sentences and phrases with the word settling and other words derived from it.
• « The horse sets the pace and you adjust to it by settling into the stirrups at a pace that is easier to feel than to describe. »
• « They had the same policy with war captives, often settling them as farmers among the Egyptians. This ensured rapid acculturation and helped bring foreign talent to Egypt. »
• « Settlers from Canaan (present-day Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria) had been arriving in Egypt for generations, initially settling and assimilating into Egyptian society. »
• « Over the next fifty years, various groups of Germanic invaders roamed Europe, plundering and, soon, settling down to occupy territory that had only recently been part of the Roman Empire. Most of these groups soon established kingdoms of their own. »
• « As noted above, the group known as the Seljuks migrated from Central Asia from the 10th century CE onwards, settling in Anatolia over the course of the following centuries. »
• « That movement, Zionism, saw a slow but growing migration of European Jews settling in the Levant, which at the time was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Decades later, it culminated in the emergence of the modern state of Israel in 1948. »
• « Twelve years after settling in Britain, in 43 BC, Aulus Plautius erected a fort in what was a small British settlement on the banks of the Thames, the English name for the Thames. »