How to Use quiet in a Sentence

quiet

1 of 3 noun

• I need a little peace and quiet.
• Can I have some quiet here? I'm trying to study.
• The sky is fogged to white; the Bronx River ruffles the heavy quiet.
  — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
• The men moved so slowly up the steps, their footfalls were clear in the quiet.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• In the quiet of the library, Molina couldn’t raise his voice.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
• But there was one voice that cut through the quiet of a losing streak.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Pack in, pack out, and enjoy the peace and quiet of solitude.
  — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
• Around me, the quiet is broken only by the whir of the cable car engine and the trilling of birds.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The rush of prospectors and the blasting of ore have given way to small towns comfortable in the quiet of the foothills.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
• To me, this record so much is about the starkness of the pandemic and what came up in that quiet, which is a very loud record.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 28 July 2022
• The geyser roared back to life in 2018 after decades of relative quiet.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• The state’s silence has kept the county quiet on any new mask guidelines.
  — Jonathan Wosen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2021
• Some of those five are for families to play, while others are for teenagers to hang around with the friends and adults to chill out in the quiet.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• This is where my vivid memories come in: the absolute quiet of the park, the silence of the skies, and the emptiness of that walk.
  — Anna Wintour, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Less than 24 hours later, the streets of the small college town were hazy with frost and hushed in the quiet of a Sunday morning.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2022
• On the bus ride home, Adams could sense an unusual quiet.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• To look at a full moon is to look for fullness in yourself, a glowing quiet in the spirit.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 14 July 2022
• Annie Sanderson had grown to love the quiet of her home, set on the bend of a gravel road deep in the prairies, far from the heart of her reserve.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2022
• The thumping of a lone helicopter overhead broke the eerie quiet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• The former dance hall is gone, leaving a peaceful quiet in its wake.
  — Lukas Flippo, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2021
• So the quiet of the mountains this season is startlingly strange.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• The thrum of Francine’s swirling resentment, worry, and lust pierces the quiet that Jérôme’s murder was supposed to bring.
  — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
• The quiet of January offers me a moment to look back at the weeks that came before and make heads or tails of them all.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• The peace and quiet of summertime on campus belies the roaring chaos of the world outside.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
• Two clerks at a time stood, in twenty-minute shifts around the clock, for almost forty-eight hours, at the top of the courthouse steps during the day and in the quiet of the Great Hall overnight.
  — Jay Wexler, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The way his gaze left the table, the odd quiet from his seat, the indifference toward his dinner.
  — Taylor Goebel, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
• The loud crack, unheard by the outdoor public in six months, rang across the quiet of the giant panda habitat.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• Yet the effect is of the gentle quiet of snowfall, rather than the lethal frigidity of an icicle.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• The quick clean setting is the loudest but works the fastest, while night mode slowly filters the air and remains whisper quiet.
  — Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• Farshad allowed the quiet to settle between them, so that Kolchak could perceive the faint dong, dong, dong of the ice floes glancing against the hull of the ship.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021

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quiet

2 of 3 adjective

• He spoke in a very quiet voice.
• He led a quiet life.
• Some days at the store are quieter than others.
• He's a very quiet person.
• During the morning, business was quiet.
• Surprisingly, the class was quiet.
• She has a quiet disposition.
• The area has been quiet since the early days of the war, but border guards are on alert.
  — Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Where the streets are quiet and the pubs (nine of them) are lively, and the roads don’t have traffic lights.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• The quiet in the building and the low midafternoon light give the place a slightly spooky, fun house vibe.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
• Taking the first pitch, Keefe stepped up to the plate with quiet confidence and sealed the deal.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The turn is that 25 years after Google Search first arrived, the name says the quiet part out loud.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• How did a genre that largely ruled the last decade end up having such a quiet start to the year on the charts?
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 June 2023
• The steering is light, the cabin is quiet at highway cruise, and the ride verges on plush.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 June 2023
• Why not start small and commit to at least one night at home each week to enjoy the quiet.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• But on many desks, experts agree, the quiet culprit is your mouse.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• Just as some diners crave peace and quiet, others want to get a nice meal with their young charges — a.k.a.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• It was ranked the quietest hair dryer brush, has a long cord and was the only winner with a wrap for storage.
  — Dori Price, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2023
• Some old-timers would tough it out in tennis shoes to be extra quiet while walking through the woods.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• Lie down or sit in a quiet place, close your eyes, and tense the muscles in your toes and feet for five seconds, then release.
  — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2023
• All of it anchored by the quiet charisma that comes with that collar-and-scarf combo.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2023
• The friends enjoyed a quiet dinner, as well as a pitcher of sangria.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Matthew was a quiet and reserved child, his father said.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2023
• On a Sunday morning, the place was empty save for one family, and the air was quiet.
  — Mya Guarnieri, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• Find a new book and a quiet spot, or check out the activities calendar and join in.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• The town gets very quiet… The first thing is to have the resolve within yourself to not just let the first wave of resistance dissuade you.
  — William Earl, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Gillis has the ball, the crowd’s chanting, and now Gillis is shooting and scoring and the crowd is absolutely quiet.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
• Funny how, after four days of back-to-back performances, the quietest parts echo the loudest.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• Forté says it, too, has a high-end interior and is quiet.
  — Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2023
• Cindy was quiet and soft spoken while Kyu was loud and quick to unleash deep belly laughs.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 14 May 2023

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quiet

3 of 3 verb

• Of course, there were gardens and labyrinths to quiet the mind, open the heart and ground the body.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• The homeowner told his guests to quiet down for the evening.
  — cleveland, 29 June 2022
• Will the Seahawks be able to quiet the hype with a win at home?
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
• Tonight: Clouds hold through the night, but showers and storms should quiet down by late in the evening.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• Don’t quiet-quit your job and force the company to fire you.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
• Relax, enjoy the breath, quiet the mind, and connect with the present.
  — Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2023
• One key to quieting the boom comes from the plane’s design.
  — Monica Rodman, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• The fan rotates on its base to cool a wide swath of the room, and there's a night setting to quiet the machine's noise.
  — Amber Nolan, Treehugger, 10 July 2023
• The key is to quiet everything else around us and focus on Him.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
• One was a trip to Walmart, to quiet their classmates’ taunts over their thrift-shop clothes.
  — Jason Deparle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• One of the best quarterbacks of all-time Chiefs coach Andy Reid isn’t quieting the hype.
  — Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
• The room quieted as a CSX worker hustled to the whiteboard and began to write.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• In June, the City Council introduced two bills to quiet the sirens.
  — Yessenia Funes, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
• Some tried to quiet the shouts, pleading that the night was about reverence for the people who died.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the second half, Spears danced around the perimeter, picking his spot and draining a jumper from the elbow and telling the UConn crowd to quiet down.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2022
• As if in its design, faced with such immense grandeur before it, the mind quiets.
  — Matthew Askari, Men's Health, 19 Apr. 2023
• Furthermore, will the Bengals’ defense shut down the hype and quiet down the Bills’ offense?
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Grumet and others doubt those facts will quiet some of the allegations about wind and whales.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 21 July 2023
• Tonight: Some storms could linger into the evening, but after sunset, things quiet down and skies clear.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• Sunny Hills used a team effort to quiet a Canyon offense that netted 20 goals in the first round of the playoffs.
  — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
• The banging of the gavel did little to quiet Macek or the other attendees.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 29 June 2023
• But as soon as the Black Lives Matter chants quieted in the streets, so did their rabid support.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, in the primary bedroom, the walls are lined in white felt, supple and quiet as fresh Alpine snow.
  — Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• As Morgan gushed over her roommate’s achievements, Wambach held up a hand to quiet her.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• To dampen the vibrations and quiet the room, set the item on a thick piece of dense foam rubber, such as a home-gym floor mat or horse-stall mat.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
• From candles to a gua sha tool to body lotion, The White Company helps give that rare moment of peace and quiet back.
  — Catharine Malzahn, Good Housekeeping, 27 Oct. 2022
• The overall result is a space that isn’t quite as tomb-like as the Taycan, but is extremely calming and quiet just the same.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
• By then, the state’s crackdown had largely quieted the protests.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Tennessee nurse stayed quiet in hopes that her silence would quiet false claims of her death.
  — Nbc News Digital Art Department, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2023
• The vodka quiets the gin’s herbaceousness, and the whispering sweetness of Lillet calms the saltiness of the caviar.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024