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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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(181) If it is injured or sick it may sit quietly in an unusually visible position during daylight hours.
(182) He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. James Joyce 
(183) With little suspicion and high self-confidence, the Rottweiler responds quietly and with a wait-and-see attitude to influences in his environment.
(184) We were quietly confident that whatever might happen to Hsu Fu we would be able to give the raft the best chance.
(185) If one trespasses beyond the limits, he quietly corrects the fault in a plea, never a paroxysm.
(186) At breakfast time Matilda sat quietly at the dining-room table eating her cornflakes.
(187) It had been quite crowded, but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink.
(188) I slipped away quietly.
(189) Now John, 17, is quietly carving out his career with Barnsley.
(190) He was incapable of entering any room quietly, especially at breakfast time.
(191) The big bird squatted quietly against Rima's chest, but her eyes held a sulky, defiant glare.
(192) He died quietly in his chair by the fire one October evening in 1775.
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(193) Under his breath the man quietly cursed the interfering clerk who could bring his master's grand design to nothing.
(194) Red Rock West is a slow-burn thriller, wry and dry, implausible and quietly confident about itself.
(195) I went below, then took off my shoes and went quietly up the other stairs to watch him.
(196) I returned to the raft quietly seething with anger at such boorish behaviour.
(197) Behind de Craon Edward saw de Warenne quietly pull a dagger from his sheath.
(198) The children played quietly in the backyard as Frances looked on with approval.
(199) Apparently, though, it was all too much for her husband - he left very quietly.
(200) This was just the ticket, I thought, sitting on my canvas chair, quietly digesting my cake.
(201) Suddenly a small group of deer moves past the lime trees quietly.
(202) When at last he lay sleeping quietly, she summoned all her courage and lit the lamp.
(203) He took a deep breath, standing quietly by the door, and then surprised himself by bursting into tears.
(204) He worked as an engineer with a construction company and lived quietly with girlfriend Lorna Burns in Eltham, south London.
(205) The aerodynamic buffeting had stopped, and it was now spinning quietly in vacuum.
(206) They spoke quietly, deliberated over the menu and drank their wine in sips, like dipping birds.
(207) I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby windows.
(208) Hale was permitted to retire quietly, but after a public outcry he was brought back to face charges.
(209) Although normally quietly spoken, he would be most courageous in facing hostility in discussion, even from large groups of people.
(210) They are beginning to quietly fancy their chances at Stamford Bridge.
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