QUIETLY in a Sentence

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280 example sentences for QUIETLY, such as:

1. The church was dark and quiet.
2. A man's voice was calling for quiet.
3. He has a cheerful but quiet character.
4. I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.
5. His voice was quiet and almost menacing.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUIETLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quietly
 ad.  with little or no sound
 ad.  with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  She went quietly down the front steps, looking carefully over her shoulder to make sure Mammy was not observing her from the upstairs windows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Across the road, in the pasture, the horses, mules and cows stood quietly with heads over the split-rail fence, waiting to be driven to the stables and supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the other O'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Throwing it across her arm, she crossed the hall quietly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She cried until Charles climbed into bed beside her and tried to comfort her, cried without words until no more tears would come and at last she lay sobbing quietly on his shoulder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  They had been kind in Savannah, but James and Andrew and their wives were old and content to sit quietly and talk of a past in which Scarlett had no interest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly and serenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck of his ship where he belonged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Melanie had been sitting quietly, her hands in her lap, her waffles cooling on her plate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  "I never misunderstand Ashley," Melanie replied quietly, though her lips were trembling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  It was too quiet - I felt that trouble was brewing.
17  Two things doth prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
18  You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
19  For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
20  A man's voice was calling for quiet.
21  His voice was quiet and almost menacing.
22  She spoke in a quiet voice so as not to wake him.
23  I'll brain you if you don't keep quiet.
24  Genius is formed in quiet, character in the strenm of life.
25  Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
26  He has a cheerful but quiet character.
27  The church was dark and quiet.
28  It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
29  Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first.
30  Your sister is trying to read;please be quiet for her sake.