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How to use quietly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Quietly means producing little or no noise. Example: “She was sitting there quietly, then all of a sudden she upped and left.”

Examples of quietly by meaning

adverbProducing little or no noise.

  • The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

adverbWithout attracting attention.

  • "Since hypertension doesn't usually cause symptoms, it flies below the radar, quietly damaging the vessels that deliver blood to your body and brain and increasing your risk of being blindsided by a heart attack or stroke."2026, Ginny Graves, quoting Rishi K. Wadhera, “The Most Important Health Metric You're Not Tracking”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2...

More sentences with quietly

  • She was sitting there quietly, then all of a sudden she upped and left.From the entry up
  • With all his usual subtlety, he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.From the entry subtlety
  • As they were being decoyed, the rescue team carried the hostage and quietly slipped away.From the entry decoy
  • We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness.From the entry pensiveness
  • A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room.From the entry red-faced
  • She took the stand and quietly answered questions.From the entry stand
  • The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.From the entry masticate
  • Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.From the entry run up
  • Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.From the entry breathlessness
  • He misspoke, but I quietly set him straight.From the entry set straight
  • She sat by herself in the corner, waiting quietly.From the entry by oneself
  • He slipped away quietly in his sleep.From the entry slip away
  • Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.From the entry gun
  • Curtis has spent the last seven years in Congress quietly developing a reputation for bipartisan bonhomie.2025 January 28, Cameron Joseph, “Meet Mitt Romney’s replacement – who could make or break the Trump agenda”, in The Christian Science…. From the entry bonhomie
  • X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm.2024 July 23, Keith Broni, “X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm”, in Emojipedia Blog. From the entry fka
  • If neither the king nor Varen moved to work things out, Aabria would not stand quietly by.2022 October 20, Morrigan Gaines, Echoes of Bellek, Morrigan Gaines, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry Aabria
  • I have hardly seen him and am quietly, tactfully freezing him off.2021 September 9, Chips Channon, Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry horlicks
  • At this moment, as you sit quietly reading this book, you are awash in it.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 8-9. From the entry light
  • It is part of a sense of community and expressing one’s individuality quietly.2017 September 11, Suzanne Moore, “What's next after hygge? My search for the next big fad”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry ikigai
  • Yeah, well happen if he'd gone quietly, she wouldn't have needed to show him who's in charge.2016, Sally Wainwright, Happy Valley, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire), Manchester: Red Production Company; distributed by…. From the entry happen
  • Ryder (who has been quietly eating his noodles): These noodles are bigger than psketti.2015, Miriam Beloglovsky, Lisa Daly, Early Learning Theories Made Visible, page 109. From the entry psketti
  • (subtitle) The North-South Institute, a once-venerated foreign policy think-tank, quietly shuts down.2014 September 18, Carol Goar "Another Canadian window on the world closes," The Star (Canada) (retrieved 3 Dec 2017). From the entry window on the world
  • The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather.2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time. From the entry mountainy
  • I moved slowly and quietly down the path toward the company.2013, Dan Rodgers, Call Me Sergeant Rock: How a Boy Becomes a Man in Vietnam, page 238. From the entry break squelch
  • You could buy FLs quietly in chemists' shops and often in barber shops.2012, Ian McCall, Going Going Gone, page 94. From the entry fl
  • Afterward, Lili‘u and Stevenson found time to talk quietly with each other on the bungalow's lānai.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158. From the entry lanai
  • "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that.2012, David Drake, The Road of Danger. From the entry cloudscraper
  • So what happened when Vanessa and George sat quietly with the issues over the 'affair baby'?2012, Andrew G Marshall, How Can I Ever Trust You Again?. From the entry affair baby
  • I took the phentermine pills and started quietly obsessing about losing weight again.2010, Jillian Lauren, Some Girls, page 231. From the entry phentermine
  • They quietly reduced the amount of materials or else manipulated the quality of raw inputs.2009, Paul Middler, Poorly Made in China: An Insider’s Account of the Tactics behind China’s Production Game, page 96. From the entry quality fade
  • Behind the scenes, the system had quietly punched a neat loophole into the ballyhooed reform.2008 September 9, Jim Hightower, “Breaking the Lobbyists' Stranglehold on Our Democracy”, in Creators, archived from the original on 26…. From the entry loophole
  • Another was chatting quietly with a black woman in a Chicago Bulls sweatshirt.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.74. From the entry hacky sack
  • Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes.2008, Alan Lazzari, Heat Of The Fire. From the entry cracker barrel
  • “A countess,” he said so quietly she could hardly hear him.2006 January 31, Shana Galen, Pride and Petticoats, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry earless
  • The way they all quietly cheered Toby's burps, as if each were a champagne cork popping!2006, Emma Neale, Relative Strangers, Random House New Zealand, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry nappy check
  • Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow.2005, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Instant Digital Audio, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry brick wall
  • But it was too little, too late, and the whole thing slid quietly into the ocean.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry too little, too late
  • But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places.2004 August 30, Andrea Sachs, “About-Face”, in Time. From the entry under the radar

Meaning of quietly

  1. adverb Producing little or no noise.
  2. adverb Without attracting attention.

Full definition of quietly

Questions about quietly in a sentence

How do you use quietly in a sentence?
Quietly is used as an adverb. For example: “She was sitting there quietly, then all of a sudden she upped and left.”
What is a short sentence with quietly?
“He slipped away quietly in his sleep.”
What does quietly mean?
Quietly means producing little or no noise.

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