Example Sentences

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Hearings on the bill probably will not begin until later this month, by which time, Hagedorn says, "we're hoping tempers will have quieted a bit."

From Time Magazine Archive

Matters will have quieted down when you return.”

From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

Let us say six months; it will have quieted down by then.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell