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Example sentences for: quietly

How can you use “quietly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Like its Republican predecessors, the administration now contends that pushing for human rights improvements quietly and behind the scenes is more effective.
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin defies the critical consensus and extols the new Sly: "Watching Mr. Stallone quietly hold his ground with Robert De Niro, ...
Kennedy's was a legitimate alternative, democratically rejected; Waxman's approach (which has finally become Kennedy's as well) was to quietly foist more government on an uncomprehending electorate.
His national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, and McFarlane's deputy, Admiral John Poindexter, thought the hostage problem might be solved and the U.S. position in the Middle East improved if the United States quietly negotiated with Iran about exchanging hostages for modest quantities of arms.
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.