How To Use Quietly In A Sentence

She spoke in a quietly melodious voice.
Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
Often he found her quietly weeping, but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.

Baker's style is to prearrange deals by patiently and quietly lining up the parties before going public. The Rescue Squad
The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
They mumbled quietly to each other for the rest of the journey.
We are quietly confident as a group of players. The Sun
‘Don't ever do that again,’ he said quietly, his words gentle caresses against her ear as he bent down to reach her face.
Stay safe and remember to spend even a short moment quietly with the Almighty, He who governs and rules all.
Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard.
Another glass passed, quietly, as Fifteenth Company followed the scouts down the southeast road and circled away Tom Fynhaven Estate, only to return to the lane bordering the casaran orchards on the south. Alector's Choice
After the famous New York trial of her boyfriend and pimp Mickey Jelke, "the oleo-margarine heir," the former call girl Pat Ward had quietly married an osteopath and they lived in Hollywood, Florida. An Interview with Gail Godwin about her novel Queen of the Underworld, and her memoir The Making of a Writer, both published in early 2006.
Manchester, " I replied quietly as 500 pairs of curious eyes swivelled round to a pasty-faced outsider. "Manchester!
Intel judged the flaw to be minor, hid the truth from customers and quietly went about correcting the problem.
Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. James Joyce
The pig trotted off, oinking quietly to itself.
Unwind by sitting quietly and mentally scanning your body from the crown of your head down.
In the remains of the village the factory crumbles quietly, blocks of concrete and old gateposts tell of what has been.
Do you hit the town after dark, collapse quietly with a book or go celebrity-spotting?
I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
Folks who think oppositely of the folks who quietly fund the Cato Institute. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Lobbyist-Bashing
Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats.
As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
At all events, the disastrous term concluded quietly. The Longest Journey
More companies are likely to retrench or quietly exit from venture programs if the recent stock market downturn persists, simply because too much money has been chasing too few good deals.
He quietly gathered a few bolts and washers from the floor and threw them to the other end of a row of crates, causing a loud sound to come from that direction.
Nigel Deering, the publisher, is quietly confident about the magazine's chances.
We quietly filed in, formed rows and stood an arm's length apart.
I was sitting quietly reading when all of a sudden a stone came hurling through the window.
Samsung, which for a while supported four different operating systems including its own, called bada, as well as Symbian, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, and Android, has quietly shifted its focus almost exclusively to the Android over the past few months, so that roughly 80% of the phones its ships run on it. Software Rules at Spain's Phone Confab
Dr Winiata showed on TV the other night during a rowdy and unmanaged debate just how quietly sensible, measured and controlled they can be.
Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
At the gathering, Secretary General Kofi Annan listened quietly to three and a half hours of bluntly worded counsel from a group united in its personal regard for him and support for the United Nations.
Sam tells him to just stop talking before turning to contemplate the four gallons of go-juice sitting in the Impala's trunk ... then he quietly asks Dean not to watch. Chron.com Chronicle
When no remonstrance of hers availed to prevent the constant increase of expenses, Elizabeth saw that her assistance, instead of helping the family to get out of debt, was simply the means of providing toys for experimentation, and that she was being quietly but persistenly euchred out of all that her heart cherished. The Wind Before the Dawn
A servant eased out of a small door with a four-string violin and began to saw quietly at it.
The labourers went quietly and steadily on with their work, as though it were a thing that had to be done; and when Jüchziger laid his hand on one and another of them, with the idea of hindering them by force, he soon found himself repulsed in no very gentle fashion. The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
She stole quietly from her bed in the small room in the small apartment.
The children played quietly in the backyard as Frances looked on with approval.
It was nice to sit quietly in the company of loved ones, sip coffee, gaze off into the far horizon and think about this and that.
They should go away quietly now, without any arguing. Times, Sunday Times
For every weekend where I have a major social outing, I need another weekend that I spend at home quietly.
Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
Last night I googled me again and in no time at all was presented with 2270 results, I smiled quietly to myself.
Kennedy, the other newcomer, remains silent, his blank, hooded eyes seeming quietly amused by something.
I slipped quietly back into the house and pulled the door shut after me, leaving the scene.
He came into the room so quietly that he took me unawares.
I spoke quietly, calmingly, easing closer to him as I did so. Renegade's Magic
He turned his gaze back to Sarah and her friends who were quietly indulging themselves in a game of whist whilst the party was in full swing around them.
Michener never forgot the importance of his education - and spenta lifetime quietly helping others get theirs.
White Fang does not make an uproar, but rather follows quietly, stalking the stranger.
Occasionally, Ducros - who is French - quietly ventures a suggestion about some nuance of diction.
The opportunity to knock somebody out quietly or take a hostage is not often present since enemies tend to rove in groups.
His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
I gave the kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it.
The Palo Alto startup is quietly developing an online service that will help businesses and consumers choose and manage health plans.
He was working quietly, all his attention fastened on the task.
I have come into villages where, had we acted a domineering part, and rummaged every hut, we should have found nothing; but by sitting down quietly, and waiting with patience until the villagers were led to form a favorable opinion of us, a woman would bring out a shellful of the precious fluid from I know not where. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
The townspeople are hoping the fair will quietly fade away and die because of the usual clashes between the locals and the travellers.
But then most quietly went away and addressed the problems that had been identified. Times, Sunday Times
Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity, in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
The ripples spread across the pool quietly at first. Times, Sunday Times
In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
Under his breath the man quietly cursed the interfering clerk who could bring his master's grand design to nothing.
As she quietly awaited the next move, she slipped her hands over her shoulders, unhasping her magnificent chain, with the poison-infused spikes.
The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside.
He quietly slipped away and went home. Heidi
The man fixed his interrogator with a steady gaze and spoke quietly but firmly. Times, Sunday Times
Moshe," said the Rabbi, passing swiftly and quietly through the hall. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
Then Joyful trumped the king of spades with the seven of diamonds and said quietly, “I declare a double bezique.” City of Glory
If she’s read this, your mum will note that you’ve started nagging again – bitching that your boy jester doesn’t pull his weight domestically, doesn’t wash the dishes quietly (even after he’s made you dinner), hasn’t done the ironing while you watch a pathetic show that you’ve chosen because it’s YOUR finger on the remote button. Nique sa mère
A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
She was portrayed as a bit of a lad, very brash, by music journalists, but really she is very quietly spoken, doesn't shoot her mouth off, very intelligent and - she'll hate me for saying this - just very nice.
You see I am not the traditional conference goer of the 80's who arrives on time, sits quietly and pays attention. Lisa Larter: Gen Y - What Makes A Conference Work For Me?
Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers.
After the family firm's bookkeeper-nephew takes a fatal fall, which local police deem an accident, Lynley's Yard superior asks the dectective inspector to double-check that verdict, though quietly: "No feathers ruffled but no stone unturned. In Brief: Mysteries
MOVE calmly and quietly around any dog. The Sun
Sit quietly and behave yourself.
My client wishes to settle this matter quietly, inexpensively and expeditiously.
Little success is predicted for the Vikings this season by outside analysts and skeptical fans, but the team has quietly expressed confidence in bringing the life back to a place former owner Red McCombs often called the "noisiest stadium in the NFL. The Seattle Times
The children seem to be totally incapable of working quietly by themselves.
The study showed a high incidence of birth defects in rhesus monkeys that had been given the drug during pregnancy," he answered quietly. THE ASSOCIATE
He waits several minutes before at last strolling toward the door, turning the knob clockwise and stepping through quietly.
Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies.
The depressive group are sitting quietly after ten minutes, the happy group are all chatting, but both groups deny they've been influenced by statements.
Many in the US would quietly applaud such a move. Times, Sunday Times
In person she is thoughtful and quietly spoken. Times, Sunday Times
Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.
The horses were quietly cropping the grass.
It was impossible for her to fade quietly into the background.
They were gentle people who went quietly about their lives.
When the green light above the elevator dinged quietly he flattened himself against the side of the wall closest to the elevator door and pushed Peaches forward so that she was doing the same.
They want us all to do the convenient thing and quietly forget that those weapons were the primary apparent motive for prosecuting the war.
She opened the door quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping child.
We left quietly, one by one, without telling anyone and without taking anything with us.
It took only eight minutes for Waterford to sound the first warning when Paul Leahy sent in a low cross for Kevin O'Brien but the midfielder's snap shot flashed wide as United quietly took control of the proceedings.
This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
It makes me think we are dealing with a vain mendacious man who clung to power as long as he possibly could wrapped in a cloud of vainglory and falsehood, when he should have had the good grace to go quietly long ago.
All three deal with problems that creep quietly below the surface of society. Times, Sunday Times
Neither did he go quietly when leaving his native country. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, he has quietly promoted social justice, advocated for greater democratization and loudly promoted transparency and combated corruption. Charles Becker: An IMF Leader From the Steppe
He is quietly confident that there will be no problems this time.
Maybe you just sit in a corner and sink quietly into oblivion, snoring loudly for the rest of the evening.
The wills and inventories listed by Lord are quietly evocative. Times, Sunday Times
From this angle at night, you can only really see the lit top deck of buses gliding quietly across the bridge - I've often thought it looks like some highly futuristic transport system.
He was not vain, but he was quietly proud of his literary achievements.
Leave them to sleep quietly and wake slowly, to soothe themselves with softly waving reflections and shadows of trees on the ceiling? The Sun
I once read an article about a guy who corralled a herd of particularly wily mustangs by just quietly pushing them from 3 miles back.
I'll smile quietly to myself at his funeral today when I recall some of our dafter escapades.
He waited until his daughter was asleep, then tiptoed quietly out of the room.
Your quietly confident attitude to love gets the hottest reaction from a partner. The Sun
She heard him drop quietly on the other side, and draw the bolt.
The last month of our tercentennial year rolled in quietly, with little sign of any real winter weather. Washington D.C. weather in the year 2076, part II
She snivelled quietly but forced herself away from the idea of thinking any more about what this chance discovery meant.
And I know what it feels like to want quietly and graspingly for unknown things.
She's not going to go quietly.
'I'm sorry,' she said quietly.
Once again Grace spoke quietly, with absolutely no venom or malice, or any emotion at all.
The layers of moral and political complexity pile up to quietly enthralling effect. Times, Sunday Times
For many people it keeps getting harder to bear their desperation quietly.
Going out for meals was a rare treat, usually confined to birthdays, or on holiday where the atmosphere in the hotel dining room was almost churchlike, with everyone talking incredibly quietly, like priests in the confessional. Fathers & Sons
It is one of the apples of the Hesperides ," said Galaad, quietly. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
They can talk quietly, knowing that they won't be drowned out by an army of shrieking teenyboppers.
Many people will bluster aggressively when confronted, and then quietly stop doing what's been bugging you. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
It was a quietly joyful moment for this parent. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the world's most expensive footballer was always quietly confident he would have the last laugh. The Sun
Arthur sat and watched quietly as he stood up, slowly, pushing his hands onto his knees for leverage. BEHINDLINGS
Fifteen days he remained quietly at home, without giving any argument of seconding his former vanities; in which time passed many pleasant encounters between him and his two gossips, the curate and barber, upon that point which he defended, to wit, that the world needed nothing so much as knights-errant, and that the erratical knighthood ought to be again renewed therein. The First Part. VII. Of the Second Departure Which Our Good Knight, Don Quixote, Made from His House to Seek Adventures
Some people put it down to luck but it is the way you quietly work towards your goals that brings success. The Sun
The first half-hour after the dishes were washed (a task performed to music, all hands joining in the choruses of "John Peel," "Blow, ye winds of morning," etc.) was spent quietly enough, four of the party at parcheesi, the others busy over crokinole and jackstraws; but by and by there was a cry of "Boston!" and instantly boards and counters were put away on their shelf, and the decks cleared for action. The Merryweathers
The service, which will die quietly, though far from unmourned, on January 20, is now run from Bush House in the Strand by four Albanian exiles and one Englishman. From the archive, 11 January 1967: Albania on the blink
David Evans from Wales, the lanky but smooth attacker who has been quietly laboring to bring his game back to the world class form he briefly displayed four years ago, took a small step on that road last night.
The districts attacked regard them very quietly and calmly. Times, Sunday Times
We'd rather just plod along quietly. Times, Sunday Times
And after having in this way, quietly and by subreption, introduced this its definition of the term "_bourgeoisie_," the indictment goes on to formulate its final charge as follows: The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines, the deal is quietly being put back together again.
What if these citizens were quietly protected, even aided and abetted, by our elected officials?
In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the towering buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road.
Identical fragments had been found on the clothing quietly abstracted from the locker of a prime suspect. COFFIN ON THE WATER
She quietly slid her desk drawer back in after she pulled out the lone picture which had occupied that space for several months.
The mayor had been aiming to quietly turn over control of the city's water to private business interests.
I had to quietly excuse myself from a Vinyasa class with mutterings of trick knee.
Instead she and her family spent the day quietly, remembering her beloved son, Daniel.
A lilting, deeply accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them.
Hale was permitted to retire quietly, but after a public outcry he was brought back to face charges.
The family is the rain, take irritable, leaving Qingliang; affection is the wind, blowing the sorrow, stay happy; the family is the sun, taking away the darkness, leaving the light. The family is the most great, no matter you are happy, frustration, pain, loss, it will gently on your way, quietly with your life.
Is it not singular that these animals, not usually wanting in sagacity or courage, should when threatened by fire so quietly submit to their fate without making a single effort to escape? Life in the Rocky Mountains
The pilot episode/movie does an excellent job of establishing the characters and backstory, and creates a quietly understated atmosphere of creepiness.
A couple of them got to work, one or two asked to be released to talk to other teachers, and a few were playing checkers and chess quietly.
Jiu, who had a "close relationship" with Chávez, was "wary of close contact with the U.S. Embassy" and was "quietly pensive" at the suggestion that China might apprise the U.S. in advance of its sales of communications satellites to Venezuela. Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
AS the Passport was directed to all lieutenant-governors, governors, and commandants of cities, generals of armies, justiciaries, and all officers of justice, to let Mr. Yorick the kings jester, and his baggage, travel quietly alongI own the triumph of obtaining the Passport was not a little tarnishd by the figure I cut in it. 50. The Passport. Versailles
At the same time, I am quietly asking around and looking into other opportunities.
She spoke quietly to still the frightened child.
Chief Inspector Berret was quietly confident.
It inoculated the magazine for a time against charges of being centrist while it quietly reoccupied the centre. The Times Literary Supplement
Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway.
Cows are bailed quietly and smoothly under close supervision.
‘I'll go now,’ Liv said quietly, rising and grabbing her pocket book.
And then again, she wants to back away quietly and run to where her friends are waiting in a car by the kerb. Times, Sunday Times
In the meantime Pleasonton's three divisions, "stiffened" -- to use one of Hooker's expressions -- by two brigades of infantry, stole down to the fords and lay there during the night, quietly, and without fires, ready at the first dawn of day to spring upon their too-confident adversaries and give them a rude awakening. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
Across the country there are countless people who quietly try in ways they can manage to help people get on. Times, Sunday Times
Jack quietly excused his rudeness.
For a quarter of a century, including a four-year apprenticeship, Phil had worked quietly in the university bindery, one of a small team of craftsmen who bound students' theses, and repaired or restored books from the university library.
Rockets scream around you, birds move overhead, engines thrum quietly in your wake.
We generally celebrate our birthdays quietly, without much fuss or fancy goings-on.
The woman stood quietly waiting for an answer.
The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt.
Running quietly down the steps, she fixed herself a big breakfast and ate all of it in 5 minutes flat.
I was lying down on my bed, my roommate still in the room chatting quietly with a friend.
I quietly walked away,I gently rippling heart will become calm.
At 16, Lucy was eating her breakfast in the family kitchen, listening quietly as Elaine talked to another nurse, who wanted to know if the cosmologist was her only client. A Beautiful Mind, an Ugly Possibility
On one occasion, I had left the table to fetch a brose pudding for dessert, and returned to find both of them sound asleep, and Jenny laughing quietly to herself amid the remains of supper. Sick Cycle Carousel
When they woke after midday, they would eat and talk quietly together, waiting for the friendly cover of night to fall before moving on.
Jake accepted the pole from Abby, and the two quietly watched the whitecaps in the bay, while the clouds lazily drifted overhead.
It is quietly confident, classy and brave, traits that it certainly shares with its director.
This is what I love about living in the UK, when you're quietly coasting through a perfect spring morning in this beautiful rolling countryside!
He watched quietly as I efficiently untacked each horse, put groomed them, put them in their stalls and filled their water buckets.
‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says.
She pulled her hair back and slowly, as quietly as possible, tiptoed down the stairs.
Better to work quietly behind the scenes on the things that make a big impact on the balance sheet rather than on the pages of national newspapers.
Humour for humour's sake is what we want, and in these anxious hours something to make us laugh quietly and unhysterically, if only by way of temporary relief. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914
If one trespasses beyond the limits, he quietly corrects the fault in a plea, never a paroxysm.
It is a reapply moody air conditioner freeze up homes that can apologise their contravention molly for cabins and quietly forge the facials of aging, as in outrig and tightness. Wii-volution
As she spoke, an old slave placed on the table a dish called pillau, made of rice and meat, which is a great favourite among people in the East, and setting down glasses of sherbet before each person, left the room quietly. The Grey Fairy Book
The control and supervision must be done discreetly and quietly and hopefully even without the awareness of those who are being supervised.
Plans to expand the company have had to be quietly shelved.
Although the sight of road-ragin 'celebrities -- particularly if they're young and terribly thin and have been in rehab or married to failed rappers -- might still be reason for the heart to beat faster, a new road menace has quietly arisen. Sunday Reading
Half way through the final allegro the world came into existence again, as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone.
But prayerful meditation quietly assures me that mutual love in the context of a greater love for God can only be good.
The place was thronged with people, all quietly enjoying the moment.
He is a quietly-assured personality, and the pursuit of a physical-education qualification at Rosewell High School in Coatbridge stoked his interest in the mechanics of physiology.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.
They can be the first to discover a product sitting quietly, unadvertised, on a specialty retail shelf, or can decide to play with a mini-skateboard keychain or milk cap, and turn it into a runaway hit.
At 1.35 pm, Nelson, pacing his quarterdeck amidst the crash of the broadsides, calm amidst the smoke that wreathed Victory, was giving his orders quietly and firmly, as always.
While the generals debated how to mandate a revolution, the captains and majors quietly implemented one.
The story is that the jackdaw was very quietly displumed.

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