quietness

Example Sentences

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Quietness was just a trait in his family, I suppose.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Quietness is de rigueur in this category, and the G90 is appropriately silent—even when the turbo on the smaller-displacement motor kicks in.

From Golf Digest • Aug. 18, 2017

Where his family once lived in tents a half hour's drive south of Sert, Gaddafi has constructed a large multi-building concrete compound known as Bu-Hudu or "Place of Quietness."

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011

Quietness seems inimical to Suede: Anderson misses the danger and fierceness his band used to thrive on.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2010

Quietness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd