16 example sentences using quiet.
Quiet used in a sentence
Quiet in a sentence as a noun
You know, there's a time and a place for quiet reflection.
Somehow it's now being argued, that I should stay quiet and vote with my feet/wallet instead?
A quiet car park in the centre of town may have a lot of pedestrians walking through it at 2am going back from clubs.
It was a submarine rigged for silent running, deep and quiet, that's never bothered to surface for air.
Quiet in a sentence as a verb
I got handed a custom mp3 encoder and asked if I could figure out why the output was too quiet.
You can't buy land to build a smokestack plant in a quiet residential neighborhood - ditto.
Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework.
It's your preference for living by yourself, for quiet moments away from others, for nights spent at home, watching Netflix or playing games.
Quiet in a sentence as an adjective
The person thinking about ******* won't call the hot-line, and the sexually assaulted child will stay quiet in fear of people finding out.
HTP threatened to widely publish all this sensitive information if Linode didn't stay quiet.
So, HTP tried to strong-arm Linode into staying quiet until May 1st. HTP had obtained the customer information and credit cards of all the Linode customers.
They all have the same characteristics: Be a quiet professional, dont make waves, conform, fit in, dont question authority.
Quiet in a sentence as an adverb
If a company does something clearly distasteful and harmful to others, staying quiet and voting with your feet is not a good idea.
I assume it's the chatty discussions which you're concerned about cooling down, so this would handle the problem case while avoiding the side effect on quiet/abandoned threads.
The most productive team I ever saw had quiet individual offices for each programmer, a daily design and status meeting of 15 minutes and a weekly customer meeting.
Working in a quiet room not only removes unproductive context switching and frustrating distractions, it also promotes the joy of being totally engrossed in your task—a state often needed to keep all the complex interconnections in your head.
Quiet definitions
a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"
See also: lull
an untroubled state; free from disturbances
See also: tranquillity tranquility
the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"
See also: silence
a disposition free from stress or emotion
See also: repose placidity serenity tranquillity tranquility
become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
See also: calm tranquilize tranquillize tranquillise quieten lull still
characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years"
free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet"
not showy or obtrusive; "clothes in quiet good taste"
See also: restrained
in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water"
of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.
with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly'); "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; "sit here as quiet as you can"
See also: quietly