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Sentence count:235+14Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: quietrestfullysoftlySimilar words: acquiescencejet lagSovietsocietyanxietyvarietya varietytwentiethMeaning: ['kwaɪətlɪ]  adv. 1. with low volume 2. with little or no sound 3. with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly') 4. in a restful manner. 
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(121) While the others fussed and worried and dashed around, Mary sat quietly reading.
(122) She opened the door quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping child.
(123) He came into the room so quietly that he took me unawares.
(124) The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
(125) The boy labored quietly.
(126) He quietly drew his dagger and braced himself.
(127) Quietly, under my breath, I began humming Handel.
(128) She quietly outwore the sufferings.
(129) Stay quietly confident of your own knowledge of truth.
(130) Chief Inspector Berret was quietly confident.
(131) The reasonable course is quietly to drop the action.
(132) They are quietly married in the village church.
(133) The lorry quietly rolled forward.
(134) The townspeople are hoping the fair will quietly fade away and die because of the usual clashes between the locals and the travellers.
(135) A number of people were walking quietly to and fro, studying the architecture,[http://sentencedict.com/quietly.html] referring to guide-books and conversing in low voices.
(136) The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside.
(137) I cried on reading that, quietly, in a dark corner of our hall.
(138) Grabbing a robe and a towel, she was heading for the shower when some one tapped quietly at the cabin door.
(139) No stormy preacher, President Witherspoon quietly won the confidence of his colleagues.
(140) Quietly they huddled together on the cobbles of the drive.
(141) Quietly, slowly and significantly, sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world.
(142) Healthy proteins, which have not met up with prions, reside quietly in the membranes of nerve cells in the brain.
(143) Rachel looks quietly excited, peering round this dark alley like it's the entrance to a new nightclub.
(144) The control and supervision must be done discreetly and quietly and hopefully even without the awareness of those who are being supervised.
(145) Half way through the final allegro the world came into existence again, as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone.
(146) As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
(147) Walls in dark, warm colours, with rich fitted carpets or traditional rugs make for a quietly splendid effect.
(148) But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines, the deal is quietly being put back together again.
(149) Withel stared at him in amazement for a moment, and then quietly toppled into the mud.
(150) She sought then to deal with the situation quietly, but brought charges recently after the man she had accused was promoted.
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