Example Sentences

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Campbell hopes the relatively successful season will quiet critics.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023

“Now, everyone hopes this will quiet down, and we continue with the program.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

If “the extremists on both sides will quiet down,” he once wrote President Eisenhower, “we can have a peaceful social readjustment over the next ten-year period.”

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

Whether the controversy will quiet after people see Johansson act in the role as opposed to simply as a name on the page remains an open question.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2017

“Come, take it, Ranofer. It will quiet your rumblings, as the man said when he tossed his right leg to the crocodile.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw