How To Use Quieten In A Sentence
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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Every so often, the stones would quieten while a doctor would check the women's pulse.
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It is quietening down and people are getting off the street.
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In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
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I try to quieten her screeches of laughter by shaking her, to no avail.
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Can't you quieten those children down?
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Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
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The struggle for the pronunciation of our name will no doubt continue long after this fracking business has quietened down.
Times, Sunday Times
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That restricted her family time, but the outstanding results she achieved quietened their mild complaints.
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Mr Lewis, the mechanic, for example, soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room.
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Her triple-jointed limbs buckle around her as she capers, quietens, throws a soft-shoe shuffle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
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They watched him too, and when he'd quietened down, brought in his two companions.
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Invent some reason to quieten old Nosy Salt.
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He wanted … I got up and made a talk to kind of quieten these folks down.
Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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She gazed at the ceiling, feeling her heartbeat and breathing slowing to normal, her body quietening.
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Director Keith Hollinrake said that while the market had quietened down after last year's dramatic price rises, it was still buoyant, with demand increasing slightly again in the last three months.
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The mare fidgeted, but Alex quietened her with his whispered words and his gentle hands.
Judge deveraux
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In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
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The chatter of voices gradually quietened.
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His release from time-out required that he quieten down and comply with the original request on his return.
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They quietened down after that, but then I couldn't sleep for a while because I don't like altercations or upsets of any kind.
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Public art had gone from being a spontaneous expression of popular will to a way of restraining and quietening the public down.
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Things tend to quieten down after Christmas.
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His frustration was compounded in the first set by the fact that he was unable to hold on to an early break of serve which would have quietened the crowd.
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Hull City yesterday will "quieten" the job speculation after a frenzied week.
Tribalfootball.com
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When storms are brewing, he speaks, and quietens the waters.
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The hush quietens to a silence; pins dropping would be like crashing cymbals.
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The rebels quietened crying children by firing their guns into the air.
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We try to quieten those who would sully this momentous event.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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The Byron area has quietened off a tad but tailor are still around along with bream and dart.
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They watched him too, and when he'd quietened down, brought in his two companions.
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The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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The primary function of snake venom is, of course, to quieten prey before swallowing them.
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As the noise levels grew again, two women came in from the bar area and the whole place quietened down again.
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It just seemed to be the best way to do it and it certainly quietened Ann for the rest of the day.
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Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
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He took his seat on the stool and waited for the crowd to quieten.
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Spectators do quieten when requested to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Javed Miandad appealed for calm, but he failed to quieten the protesters.
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The interesting thing is that when quality drama or documentaries do come on, Twitter tends to quieten.
How Twitter saved event TV
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Somehow I managed to quieten her down.
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As the mechanical creatures quietened, a faint cheep could be heard, then a sort of indignant squawk.
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She tried to quieten her breathing.
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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The unhurt put candid, in its chichi quieten, is a youngster of the 20th century
Brian Ruckley · Three Random Things I Noticed This Week
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He was a bit of a joker, a bit loud and lairy at times but he quietened down once he got into his religion.
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Things quieten down a little until just before Easter when the Maundy Thursday Wine Fair takes place at an atmospheric wine hall in Ricey-Haut, under an imposing 18th century timbered roof.
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At one stage the noise was like bedlam, then it was as if a magic wand had quietened everyone; a steady drift down to theatre, then it was me.
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If you can quieten the Paris crowd you have half the battle won and they proved themselves magnanimous in defeat by giving the Scots a rousing cheer at the final whistle.
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But as the shark moves casually past my terror is finally quietened, my body flooded instead by a feeling I can only describe as wonder.
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In a conciliatory tone he added that she could always come back later “when things quieten down.”
A Covert Affair
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He gently stroked the horse's muzzle and whispered to him softly, and the animal quietened almost immediately.
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Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience.
Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
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You must quieten down when the teacher comes into the classroom.
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A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs.
The Social History of Smoking
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
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Jane laughed and pointed out with a kind of amazed bitterness that things were not likely to “quieten down for years.”
A Covert Affair
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Some parents have noticed their babies quietening when a familiar song or TV theme tune comes on.
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The struggle for the pronunciation of our name will no doubt continue long after this fracking business has quietened down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
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Then I quietened my seething spirits with a small bag of fish and chips which I enjoyed while sitting on a bench in the town square.
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Noticing me, Nancy immediately quietens and takes to navigating the car out onto the road.
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We have not had any reports in the last couple of weeks, so things must be quietening down.
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Perhaps the hot weather quietens everything - so much so that it is not easy to remember that the canal was once a bustling and live channel.
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We wish good recovery to the young victim and we hope that such incidents do not happen again in the future because they particularly disquieten us. ''
Your Local Guardian | Sutton
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The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
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A silencer quietens the noise of the engine.
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So, RTÉ wants to quieten brilliant satirist Oliver Callan - in the interests of "fairness" - because in "these troubled times" (yadda, yadda, yadda), don't you know, it's unhelpful to have the head of government looking like a pisshead.
Irish Blogs
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Spectators do quieten when requested to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
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She rocked the cradle to quieten the child.
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It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism.
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The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
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Neighbours and friends who visited Pamela's home yesterday recited prayers and a decade of the rosary in a bid to quieten the restless spirit.
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Perhaps the churning of the twentieth century has quietened and we are returning to a society of strong traditions with a focus on continuity rather than change.
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Sandy ga'e him a clap on the hurdles to quieten him, but aye the hent feet o 'him played skelp on the boddom o' the cairt, till I thocht he wudda haen't ca'd a 'to bits.
My Man Sandy
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A silencer quietens the noise of the engine.
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She gave me a load of abuse, but it quietened her down.
Times, Sunday Times
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She gave me a load of abuse, but it quietened her down.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although quietened by their leader, his more bullish followers claim this is because he believes he can win the first stage of the campaign purely on the momentum he has already built up.
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After the initial damage within the centre, the atmosphere quietened.
