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screened or sequestered from view a quiet little house set far back from the street

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as in quietly
without motion lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed

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a quiet place
a noiseless place
a silent place
a calm place
a secluded place
an uninterrupted place
a quiet voice
a faint voice
a subdued voice
a timid voice
a gentle voice
a low voice
quiet life
simple life
relaxed life
a quiet moment
an uninterrupted moment
a peaceful moment
a silent moment
a solitary moment
a calm moment
a quiet street
a sleepy street
an empty street
a lonely street
an uncrowded street
a noiseless street

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Adjective
Despite the presence of homes, the trail was quiet, uncrowded, and felt more like a private walking path than a public trail. Madeline Weinfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2024 From quaint and quiet to historic and bustling, here are the 9 best Virginia mountain towns to explore. Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
Adverb
The emergence of the quiet-quitting phenomenon isn't a fluke, experts say. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2022 Some of the same companies staying quiet now have spoken up on human-rights issues in other parts of the world. Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
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In the quiet of their ranch house in southern Pennsylvania, just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, there would be no nurses deciding what medicines to give, or remembering how many times Shelby is supposed to be fed through her tube each day. Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023 In the quiet of that moment, a sense of acceptance washed over him. Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Verb
While dealing with rampant speculation regarding the timeline of their relationship, Munn kept her pregnancy journey with son Malcolm Hiệp Mulaney quiet ahead of his birth in November 2024. Glamour, 22 Sep. 2024 The Dodgers’ deafening silence hasn’t quieted a public outcry. Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quiet 

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