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Example sentences for: quieted

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(Heston's "softness" on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.
In 1992, Guess paid the Labor Department $573,000 in fines for those minimum-wage and overtime-pay violations, and things seemed to have quieted down a bit within the bulletproof-windowed, razor-wire-surrounded stone building that serves as the company's bunker ...
Do you think this has quieted any of that Super Bowl bluster down there in Atlanta?
Reed, they argue, quieted brawls between Christian conservatives and Dole that would have forced Dole to pay more attention to the Christian movement and its issues.
One amusing (but untestable) hypothesis has it that females were the principal hunters on the African savanna and that they invariably threw with their right arms, because they were carrying their babies in their left arms up against their hearts, the beating of which soothed and quieted the infant.