QUELL in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for QUELL, such as:
1. The strife of their minds was quelled.
2. But at once quelling the storm within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest.
3. Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.
4. It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
5. In the midst of all this noise and commotion, there was heard a sweet female voice, which quelled it in an instant.
2. But at once quelling the storm within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest.
3. Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.
4. It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
5. In the midst of all this noise and commotion, there was heard a sweet female voice, which quelled it in an instant.
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Meanings and Examples of QUELL
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quell
v. overcome or allay
v. suppress or crush completely
Classic Sentence:
1 As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.
2 On the morrow, before daybreak, there were three thousand at Durham's, and the police reserves had to be sent for to quell the riot.
3 Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.
4 Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.
5 These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.
6 Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.
7 Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him.
8 In the midst of all this noise and commotion, there was heard a sweet female voice, which quelled it in an instant.
9 The strife of their minds was quelled.
10 For true valour, tight discipline, and the feeling of security gained by repeated victories, are not to be counteracted by things of no real moment, dismayed by empty terrors, or quelled by a solitary mishap.
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Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
11 It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
12 Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
13 But at once quelling the storm within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest.
Example Sentence:
1 Miss Minchin's demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.
2 The security forces counter-attacked the following day and quelled the unrest.