QUIET in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of QUIET
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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.
2 She needn't know anything about it if you keep quiet.
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.
4 The delay would give her time to quiet her breathing and calm her face so that his suspicions would not be aroused.
5 Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.
6 Still there was no sign of Gerald on the quiet winding road.
7 She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
8 Fury flamed in her, but Gerald waved her quiet with a hand.
9 Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.