Example sentences for: quietly

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

  • After resting quietly for 30 minutes, three consecutive measurements of systolic and diastolic blood pressures were taken one minute apart, and the average of the three measurements was reported.

  • After a bout of jealous banter, the doctor declares a smug faith in his wife's fidelity, whereupon Alice--who has been smoking dope and quietly simmering--wallops him with the news that she once came this close to abandoning him and the couple's daughter for a soldier she locked eyes with at a resort hotel.

  • Former JFK press secretary Pierre Salinger, who championed the accusation, has quietly backed off too.

  • This said quietly, reverentially, as if she were Balboa discovering the Pacific.

  • Hip-hop also influences the burgeoning field of electronic pop , which ranges from pounding dance music that is little more than rhythm to quietly rippling music that's only slightly removed from New Age sound.


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