Example sentences for: subdued

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

  • By 1483 Gran Canaria had been subdued and in 1488 Gomera was taken.

  • It's a testament to the rage and anxieties that he has brilliantly tapped into that he can't get away with a subdued conflagration and a lame twist at the end.

  • The Post says officials at the White House and with the president in Africa maintained a "consciously subdued tone," but the LAT reports staff cheers and laughter, and the NYT finds President Clinton walking around his Dakar, Senegal hotel suite with a cigar in his mouth and a drum in his hands (to be replaced moments later with a guitar.)

  • These tribes were eventually subdued by the Visigoths, who controlled much of southern Spain for some 300 years.

  • Ionia’s revolt around 499 b.c. , supported by Athens, was easily subdued.


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