QUIET in a Sentence

Learn QUIET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
280 example sentences for QUIET, such as:
1. The church was dark and quiet.
2. A man's voice was calling for quiet.
3. He has a cheerful but quiet character.
4. I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.
5. His voice was quiet and almost menacing.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of QUIET
quiet
 n.  the absence of sound
 n.  a period of calm weather
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She needn't know anything about it if you keep quiet.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena's steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The delay would give her time to quiet her breathing and calm her face so that his suspicions would not be aroused.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Still there was no sign of Gerald on the quiet winding road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Fury flamed in her, but Gerald waved her quiet with a hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it always did at this hour.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  If this fool who was grappling for her hand would only keep quiet for a moment, perhaps she could hear what they were saying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Their voices were very quiet, hardly above a whisper.
2  The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
3  Just before an attack everything would go quiet but we knew it was just the lull before the storm.
4  It was too quiet - I felt that trouble was brewing.
5  Two things doth prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
6  You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
7  For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
8  A man's voice was calling for quiet.
9  His voice was quiet and almost menacing.
10  She spoke in a quiet voice so as not to wake him.
11  I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.
12  Genius is formed in quiet, character in the strenm of life.
13  Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
14  He has a cheerful but quiet character.
15  The church was dark and quiet.