quieten

How To Use quieten In A Sentence

• It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism.
• The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
• The struggle for the pronunciation of our name will no doubt continue long after this fracking business has quietened down. Times, Sunday Times
• Some parents have noticed their babies quietening when a familiar song or TV theme tune comes on.
• Jane laughed and pointed out with a kind of amazed bitterness that things were not likely to “quieten down for years.” A Covert Affair
• Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West.
• He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
• A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs. The Social History of Smoking
• You must quieten down when the teacher comes into the classroom.
• Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience. Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish