How to Use quiet down in a Sentence

quiet down

phrasal verb
  • Step out and dry off when your cough starts to quiet down.
    Jessica Migala, Health, 19 June 2024
  • Egger was so livid over the final vote that a deputy had to ask him to quiet down.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
  • However, for the next four weeks, things will quiet down a bit.
    Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • The family remained in the area, and things quieted down a bit.
    Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
  • The family remained in the area, and things quieted down a bit.
    Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 13 May 2024
  • Other adults would tell Brown to quiet down, to stop putting on shows and making up stories.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The best time to see most of these creatures is in the fall, when the park quiets down and the animals make their winter preparations.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In a video obtained by TMZ, Lopez can be heard giving three chances for the crowd to quiet down before leaving.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
  • No calm after the storm People are used to things quieting down after a big storm comes through.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • Based on reports dating all the way back to the 1500s, researchers can expect breeding birds to quiet down during the eclipse, Pease said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Things may have quieted down in the commercial real estate world, but offices are not in the clear.
    Byalena Botros, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Once the memorial quiets down, Jackson wants to write a guide to help other cities cope with the aftermath of mass shootings.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • When the OpenAI chaos finally quieted down last week, the media was quick to name winners.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Yet often, after a while, the voices quiet down and the streets empty out—either by force, or from attrition.
    Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
  • Another siren goes off, and the hallway quiets down as water stops flowing.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The gathering of bird data tends to quiet down in the summer, after spring migration.
    Elaine Chen, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • While the current uproar might soon quiet down, Kimmel has forced a magnifying glass over the show, which will remain.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • They have been asked to quiet down by instructors and the other participants.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • What before was like this wild like sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, is now quieting down.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • One of the parents reportedly approached Jean-Pierre and asked him to quiet down, according to police.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Your imposter syndrome should quiet down very soon as well, giving you more confidence.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Once a module prevails, the others quiet down for a moment, and the winner places its information into a set of common variables: the workspace.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Active oil and gas fields are also much busier than wind farms, which tend to quiet down after construction, with lots of undeveloped space between the turbines.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The crowd erupted in cheers as the 49ers entered the field a few minutes before kickoff, quickly quieting down, punctuated by some boos, as the rival Chiefs players entered the field.
    Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Things briefly quieted down when the two decided to continue working on the relationship, per the report.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Wildfires are no longer quieting down overnight, and new research suggests the dynamic is fueling some of the most extreme and damaging blazes.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Winter quiets down a bit, but Saratoga offers wintry activities like cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, and the city decks the halls each year for the holidays.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • Storms are expected to quiet down by the evening, except for some lingering activity from upstate New York to Vermont, forecasts show.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 July 2023
  • With the exception of a few loud and toxic outliers, conspiracy theories about Kate’s health have mostly quieted down.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Similarly, when Shelia’s inner voice finally quiets down, it’s only replaced by the visions of Zooey Deschanel’s Kelly as her tormentor.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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