Words similar to quietly
Example sentences for: quietly
How can you use “quietly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
After breathless references in its opening paragraphs to Champagne rationing and skyrocketing demand, the story goes on to report rather quietly that 1999 sales are expected to rise just 15 percent from last year.
I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.
But something else was going on quietly and behind the scenes.
They quietly suppress the reality of killing other humans and the possibility of being killed themselves.
A Washington Post editorial credits President Clinton with quietly brokering the deal but warns that America may now be drawn into the conflict.
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