quieting

Example Sentences

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Quieting the babies at night so he could sleep soundly before his exams.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

After 1900, a movement of well-to-do reformers invented a style of politics, a Great Quieting aiming for what The Los Angeles Times called “more thinking and less shouting.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Quieting the mind is as much a challenge as steadying the arm in situations like this.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018

Buchholz Unbothered by Earlier Injury, or Yankee Hitters Quieting the ’ offense is hardly an achievement these days.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2013

Quieting him with a word of command and a caress, I looked hurriedly through the approaching gloom for a sign of Dejah Thoris, and then, not seeing her, I called her name.

From A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice