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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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(151) Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. Doug Larson 
(152) Seizing this opportunity, Dineh quietly loosed his bonds and fled through the night. At daybreak the Utes woke up.
(153) In the darkness I heard some one moving very quietly to the door.
(154) Sandal-shod farmers stand quietly in the golden evening light or crane their necks for a look at the speakers.
(155) We tiptoed out, quietly closed the door behind us, and made our way through the shadowy bushes.
(156) Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development.
(157) She and I walked in the ancient garden, talking quietly about our childhood meetings.
(158) The girl was a good worker who came and went quietly about her business.
(159) Often as not, our chairman just hovered quietly for a bit, then left.
(160) He pulled his cap down over his forehead and slipped quietly into the market.
(161) She hadn't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis.
(162) I got out of bed quietly, careful not to wake her.
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(163) She heard him drop quietly on the other side, and draw the bolt.
(164) But one evening - a full hour before her usual meal - I sat quietly in the armchair, reading.
(165) John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink.
(166) It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
(167) Early this March, this armoured car was quietly transported to the Artillery Museum, and the exhibition stands were dismantled.
(168) Then Hank came out and drove off, and he cursed him quietly.
(169) Instead, a burnt man kneels near a puddle, quietly brooding.
(170) Fei advised the students to cease their actions and work quietly for reform.
(171) Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 percent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock.
(172) She was speaking quietly, and there were screams in the background, along with the unmistakable sound of children crying.
(173) Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies.
(174) Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity, in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
(175) A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.
(176) The bells crashed out again, I went quietly into the Church myself, carrying Heather.
(177) The old building, seen from the Thames on summer days, is quietly and broodingly majestic.
(178) But suddenly the sheer numbers of people quietly bedding down in doorways strikes me as an augury of Labour defeat.
(179) The boy laboured quietly.
(180) He let those comments hang in the air for a moment, and we drove on quietly.
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