Example Sentences

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Since the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, clashes with demonstrators and the ouster of Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, large-scale raids have quieted across U.S. cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Even as protests have quieted, repression continues in other forms.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

The trial will just resume when things have quieted down, perhaps at another location.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2024

For many of the millions of people who have used them, these drugs have quieted the “food noise” in their brains.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2024

She said it in this frozen voice that would have quieted any seventh-grade class in half a second.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt