Example sentences for: quietly

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

  • But Long continued to press for the EITC part of his plan, and in 1975, while the fight over welfare reform was still raging, it quietly passed into law.

  • The proposal seems to have quietly died.

  • This disparity, according to one analyst, creates a "stealth bear" market, where, despite a rosy overall appearance, most stocks are quietly tanking.

  • It straight-out says "The Democratic National Committee quietly transferred at least $32 million to state Democratic parties in the last election as part of an elaborate plan to spend more money than federal election law appeared to allow on a massive advertising campaign that indirectly helped re-elect President Clinton."

  • 3. The big chains have been quietly going into the business of compiling book sales data themselves--an obvious thing to do, given their dominance of the retail market--and don't want to give up what amounts to a competitive advantage.


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