How to Use quieten in a Sentence

quieten

verb

• The fans had quietened down, the match was now a lot more even.
  — SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Eight months later, Fleabag isn't old news, but the furore has quietened.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2019
• Arsenal kept the ball for another minute and quietened the home crowd to get a better feel for the game.
  — Art De Roché, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• Not even the thudding whir of rotor blades from a helicopter overhead quietened them.
  — James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
• Talk of that move has since quietened, but Griezmann's latest comments could add fuel to the fire once again.
  — SI.com, 23 July 2019
• In just those two moments, goals would have quietened some of the growing frustrations in the attacking play.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Victory won’t quieten the noise around a side plagued by serious internal problems.
  — Colin Millar, New York Times, 3 May 2026
• The crowd, quietening into a slow clap with the moment building, burst into a celebration.
  — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
• Tocilizumab is approved to quieten the chatter of immune molecules in rheumatoid arthritis and in some types of cancer.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The festival sought to quieten frustration by issuing a lengthy statement in the middle of the edition.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2026
• If supersonic air travel is ever to return, Concorde’s successors will thus have to quieten their act.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• For Mbappe, the World Cup was his happy place once more, quietening some of the noise that has accompanied his game in recent months.
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• While reports have quietened down since any initial flurry at the start of May, Chelsea and Arsenal have also been linked with the forward.
  — SI.com, 18 May 2018
• Oli's resignation and the end of the ban could allow things to quieten, but discontent would continue without corruption reforms.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
• This is designed to improve call quality, with one pair of microphones facing back and up, to hear background noise accurately before quietening it.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
• While the major protests from earlier this week have quietened, the country remains tense as troops patrol the city and efforts to put an interim government in place continue.
  — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
• Pellegri's goal quickly quietened the Roman crowd, which had saluted Totti before kickoff.
  — Ap, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
• What Wednesday evening’s triumph also does is quieten the distracting outside noise that such a newsworthy club invariably attracts.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
• Spain's striker-free formation initially flummoxed the Azzurri to quieten its loud, colourful, flag-waving fans behind one of the goals.
  — Steve Douglas, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• When nothing is working to quieten an overstimulated brain, Nightingale suggests looking to perfume.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• Rival politicians have questioned his commitment to local issues in the seat of Clacton and returning to the presenters chair will likely fail to quieten the noise.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 July 2024
• No matter the real reason, the Daytona 500 dream is over for Mike Wallace, and the debate over the age issue has quietened for now.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• In a nuanced and counterintuitive creative choice, the adults’ voices are quietened in the background, which forces viewers to focus on Alex’s words rather than her parents’ assumptions.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017
• The Swiss international - currently away with his country for the World Cup - has been linked with a move to Merseyside, but talks is starting to quieten down.
  — SI.com, 16 June 2018
• In Colour, is a visually arresting educational resource for anyone looking to quieten their eco-anxiety.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• However, interest began to quieten by 2010, and Adidas took the shoe off the market in 2011.
  — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The carnival-like jamboree quietened dramatically and jubilation was replaced by tension.
  — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• The carnival-like jamboree quietened dramatically and jubilation was replaced by tension.
  — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• Things quietened down after the restart but Saudi Arabia did look for a third penalty minutes into the second half - referee Wilmar Roldán waved away the hopeful appeals.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2018
• Colour was also used in the Royal Pavilion’s interiors to elevate or quieten the mood, for example bright canary yellow in the drawing room or calming sage green in the king’s bedroom.
  — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025