pipe down

Example Sentences

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The noise of the crowd is overwhelming from a cinema seat, even after it's piped down and sound mixed for a documentary.

From BBC

Leaders cannot just tell their number two to pipe down, because they are voted in by party members.

From BBC

Payton walked over to the boo birds and told them to pipe down and to be respectful around the young quarterback’s family.

From Los Angeles Times

His crews then had to build scaffolding and run flexible piping down to the field.

From Washington Post

Politico's Rachel Bade caught a rare break in McCarthy's otherwise stony facade when he "visibly shushed his members to pipe down."

From Salon