QUIETLY in a Sentence
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280 example sentences for QUIETLY, such as:
1. Try to reason him into going away quietly.
2. She spoke so quietly I could hardly hear her.
3. He would sit quietly and watch what was happening.
4. Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly.
5. Their voices were very quiet, hardly above a whisper.
2. She spoke so quietly I could hardly hear her.
3. He would sit quietly and watch what was happening.
4. Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly.
5. Their voices were very quiet, hardly above a whisper.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of QUIETLY
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quietly
ad. with little or no sound
ad. with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
2 She went quietly down the front steps, looking carefully over her shoulder to make sure Mammy was not observing her from the upstairs windows.
3 Across the road, in the pasture, the horses, mules and cows stood quietly with heads over the split-rail fence, waiting to be driven to the stables and supper.
4 It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
5 Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the other O'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government.
6 Throwing it across her arm, she crossed the hall quietly.
7 Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
8 She cried until Charles climbed into bed beside her and tried to comfort her, cried without words until no more tears would come and at last she lay sobbing quietly on his shoulder.
9 They had been kind in Savannah, but James and Andrew and their wives were old and content to sit quietly and talk of a past in which Scarlett had no interest.
10 And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
11 Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly and serenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
12 Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck of his ship where he belonged.
13 Melanie had been sitting quietly, her hands in her lap, her waffles cooling on her plate.
14 When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
15 "I never misunderstand Ashley," Melanie replied quietly, though her lips were trembling.
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1 I quietly walked away,I gently rippling heart will become calm.
2 He would sit quietly and watch what was happening.
3 We walked quietly up to the door to preserve the element of surprise.
4 She spoke so quietly I could hardly hear her.
5 My love can only pass by quietly,love,became lost,you,become the past.
6 Try to reason him into going away quietly.
7 Even the union leaders hoped that the strike would die quietly.
8 The patient lay quietly on his bed in the medical ward.
9 Her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, which was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
10 Because the two older princes dismissed their youngest brother as a nonentity, they did not realize that he was quietly plotting to seize the throne.
11 So as the legislation reaches its final stages, the Government is hoping the bill will go quietly without introducing time-consuming amendments.
12 Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly.
13 Their voices were very quiet, hardly above a whisper.
14 The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
15 Just before an attack everything would go quiet but we knew it was just the lull before the storm.