quietus
Example Sentences
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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023
Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.
From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2019
What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016
Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder.
From Time Magazine Archive
I now cut a good club determined to put a quietus on Bruin in that manner but after landing several blows my knees began to feel weak.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
Vocabulary lists containing quietus
Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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