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Example sentences for "kept quiet"

  • The subject must be kept quiet in a comfortable stall and, if necessary, a sling used.

  • The patient is kept quiet and in the course of two weeks an active blistering agent is employed over the region affected.

  • Where extensive suturing of tissues has been necessary, subjects must be kept quiet.

  • They should be kept quiet, or their sleep will be broken.

  • But when no special cause can be found, and an irritable condition of the womb is suspected to be present, the patient must be kept quiet in bed, especially at the time when menstruation would normally occur.

  • The nerves should be kept quiet by rest and, if needed, general tonics like iron, arsenic, and nux vomica prescribed and given.

  • Only the house has to be kept quiet, so I suppose she can't come backwards and forwards like she used, and it's a choice between her leaving home or giving up the work altogether.

  • The house must be kept quiet, and that bell can be heard quite plainly from upstairs.

  • Plessing has to be kept quiet on account of Sir Piers; and she's been ill herself, and isn't fit to come backwards and forwards in this cold.

  • He is to be kept quiet; he will not be able to see any one for some days to come.

  • Sulla[219] was annoyed to see to what a height of reputation and power Pompeius was advancing, but as he was ashamed to attempt to check his career he kept quiet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kept quiet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient demesne; better days; common species; divided according; divine command; kept alive; kept back; kept clean; kept open; kept perfectly; kept repeating; kept right; kept secret; kept silent; kept them; kept thinking; kept warm; making known; many districts; moral government; prayer and; sallied forth; small caste; stamens numerous; three types; which are