VERB
-
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
The children shut up when their father approached
How To Use be quiet In A Sentence
- Now, you two, that's quite enough. Sit down and be quiet.
- 'Be quiet,' said the teacher.
- In stories the subject often comes after said, says or say when it follows the actual words spoken, unless it is a pronoun. Be quiet, I have something to say.
- Could you be quiet please - I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off.
- She whispered, but Will murmured in an undertone for her to be quiet.
- Your sister is trying to read;please be quiet for her sake.
- The teacher told us to be quiet.
- Well, here ! Here's an eyebrow tweezer. Pull the grass out a blade at a time but be quiet about it!
- It is fair to say that in their presence I tended to be quiet, almost meek. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
- Be quiet or you'll frighten the deer off.