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Example sentences for: quashed

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This defensive maneuver quashed one dangerous story line--"Why are all the Republicans losing?"
The insurrection was quashed and its leaders executed, but the king got the message.
Pundits think Clinton could delay the investigation by refusing the subpoena and that he might even get it quashed on the grounds that a sitting president can't be forced to testify, but agree the political cost of such a fight would be too high for Clinton.
This intelligence rose all the way up to British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, who quashed it, and Winston Churchill, who enfolded it in grandiose speeches about mass execution that didn't quite explain what was occurring.
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.