Hopefully things would settle down for them now, but it was comforting knowing that their love was strong enough to survive the worst.
Cassie had to smile when Bordeaux positioned himself in a spot less than ten feet from her and pretended to settle down for the night.
If I could find a woman that frugal, I might just settle down.
It was time for him to make his own mark on the world – settle down with some nice girl and raise a family like his father had.
Then we have Beard's " germ-cell " hypothesis, in which he holds that many of the germ-cells in the growing embryo fail to reach their proper position - the generative areas - and settle down and become quiescent in some somatic tissue of the embryo.