How to Use quieten down in a Sentence

quieten down

verb

• As kick-off time nears, the samba beat quietens down and the players turn to prayer.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 14 June 2026
• The policeman began to push aside the crowd, which had quietened down.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
• Violence in Guadalajara erupted after El Mencho’s killing, but has quietened down in the months since.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 May 2026
• The vet tried a range of tricks to quieten down Pomelo—including turning on the faucet, dipping her feet in water, and gently tapping her nose—but nothing worked.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• Things later quietened down and by early Thursday only a few demonstrators and law enforcement officers remained at the scene.
  — Steve Karnowski, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026