(1) After a frantic period around "Black Friday" sales at the end of November, business quietened down but "took off like a rocket" from Boxing Day when Dixons took £100,000 a minute, chief executive Seb James said.
(2) "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened.
(3) The angry voices in the CDU were not to be quietened.
(4) An officer suggested tear gas would quieten them down and a gas canister was lobbed into the transport.
(5) Coverage then quietened down, before a gradual increase of mentions of shirtfront in the days leading up to the Apec and G20 summits.
(6) After the room quietened enough to let the presiding judge formally begin proceedings, each defendant rejected the legitimacy of the court, arguing that they had been imprisoned on political grounds.
(7) Senior figures, including the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, have weighed in to quieten the trigger-happy tweeter.
(8) Rumbling tums can be quietened at plenty of places to eat round the estate, until 5.30pm.
(9) Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, quietened that opposition and encouraged the deal’s implementation.
(10) This older woman, and she still had the power of quietening a crowd.
(11) They tell me other things I'm not allowed to write, including news of a change in instrument infrastructure that should quieten a few groans.
(12) She’s quietened Andy down and he’s in great shape physically.
(13) It has been an uphill struggle to quieten these fears and assure people that children are being offered protection from killer diseases.
(14) But once things quieten down, he sketches out a portrait of modern society that often sounds unarguable.
(15) But we on the ground, we’ve had no word on that from our commanders.” He said things had quietened in recent weeks.
(16) Portland's first task will be to quieten this crowd.
(17) This model may be useful in studying the seemingly "paradoxical" quietening effect of amphetamine in children.
(18) It arrived moments after their manager had implored the crowd to raise their game having quietened at the start of the second half, and Firmino released Sturridge behind the Villarreal defence with a fine pass.
(19) Thirteen games into the 2014 World Cup , there was finally a bad match, even if it did not quieten this arena: there was noise in Curitiba, and lots of it, there just wasn’t much else.
(20) The local £2m-plus market, centred on desirable areas such as Brook Green, seems to be "quietening down– people were less willing to pay the guide prices".
Quieter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, quiets.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
(2) It came ahead of the Brexit vote, which the CML said could lead to quieter months ahead.
(3) Updated at 12.09pm BST 11.44am BST andrew harding (@BBCAndrewH) We must take the emotions out of it, says Roux - perhaps as much to himself as the court - his voice becoming quieter.
(4) Now it organises weekly recreational group rides through quieter districts that have sometimes attracted hundreds of cyclists.
(5) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
(6) O’Leary said he expects “a Herculean growth” in traffic during the quieter winter, with slightly lower fares and high forward bookings leading the airline to predict 20% more passengers.
(7) I grab a few laps but it’s still a bit hectic so I decide to give up and come back when it’s quieter.
(8) The device is not only much cheaper, quieter, and more compact than a commercially built shaking-type bath, but is also gives superior mixing of heterogeneous enzyme incubation samples, particularly those containing tissue homogenates or subcellular particles.
(9) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
(10) €1 is worth $1.23 and £1 is almost worth $1.57 It is a quieter day today, as we wind down for the weekend, but we will be keeping a close eye on the following: Italy is issuing €8.5bn of six-month short-term bonds Germany's latest Consumer Price Index is published The US reveals its latest GDP figures, expected to be down slightly [UPDATE: European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is NOT holding further meetings with Greek PM Antonis Samaras, as we earlier said.
(11) The flame of ultra Serb nationalism appears to be guttering, although it could be replaced with a quieter long-lasting resentment.
(12) In quieter moments she tends her avocado garden, which she forced her mother to transport to the hospital.
(13) While August and September were, as expected, a bit quieter, we remain cautiously optimistic about the outlook.
(14) "If the US is quieter, and uses military channels to urge restraint, that is about the best it can do," added Cordesman.
(15) The 50-year-old star told the BBC in an interview broadcast earlier today that he would hope to move on to "quieter things" in the near future.
(16) Ironically, Greece could not be quieter, less strike-plagued or better value for money.
(17) Read more The Squee Mobile App, meanwhile, aims to link pedestrians and cyclists to travel together on quieter, non-motorised routes in Jakarta’s urban villages.
(18) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(19) Thirty miles from the centre of Bangladesh’s chaotic capital, Dhaka, the pace of life is quieter.
(20) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.