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Example sentences for "remain quiet"

  • He re-entered the house after this reflection, having obliged Pataud to remain quiet by giving him a friendly kick over the threshold of the kennel.

  • Remain quiet on thy mat; I will remain so on mine.

  • Marquis was in the court of honor, enchanted with the success of the measure; and Ragaud and Michou could not remain quiet, but clapped their hands, and cried "Bravo!

  • When they thus betrayed themselves, Phillidas persuaded some few of the guests to remain quiet, but the rest, who rose and tried to assist the polemarchs, were easily disposed of on account of their drunken condition.

  • After the peace had been concluded, however, he saw that the Athenians were unable to remain quiet, but were eager to increase their empire by foreign conquest.

  • Her aunt endeavored to persuade her to remain quiet, telling her that Mr. Malcolm was with Lewie, and that he was not left alone for a moment.

  • The terrible suspense left it out of her power to remain quiet for a moment, but she restlessly paced the room, watching for the dawn of day, and yet dreading the signs of its approach.

  • Before long, if we remain quiet, we shall see him pounce down on one of them should they venture out of their holes.

  • I persuaded him to have patience, and to remain quiet; and closing the hut even more carefully than before, with the thickest sticks I could find, I set off on my expedition.

  • I was about to rush forward across the stream to examine him, when my companions urged me to remain quiet; and in a short time I saw a leopard stealing over the ground.

  • Still Igubo urged me to remain quiet, and after some time another lion came.

  • It will, therefore, be better to remain quiet.

  • On the other hand, how long would the multitude which had seceded, remain quiet?

  • He also asked Plato to beg Dion to remain quiet, and not to engage in any revolutionary schemes, and not to traduce his character to the Greeks.

  • I heard Mr. Wright ask, while endeavoring to persuade Mike to remain quiet.

  • As he read on the listener's interest kept growing until he was no longer able to remain quiet.

  • If Cooper had lost any ground in the estimation of the public, all he had to do, in order to regain it, was to remain quiet.

  • The one thing that Cooper could not do was to remain quiet.

  • To remain quiet is all we can do, and how can we accomplish that better than by going to sleep?

  • T is well for him to remain quiet until I finish this repast, for I am of a merciful disposition when my carnal requirements are properly ministered unto.

  • Nor was it easy for De Noyan to remain quiet, while Madame hid her shocked white face in her hands, venturing not to glance up while the sound of these rites continued.

  • Our orders, issued by Sir Colin Campbell, were to remain quiet, and, above all things, to keep our rifles and ammunition dry.

  • At last we were ordered to remain quiet, and fresh ammunition was served out to us.

  • Farmer Grey has sent the water which used to remain quiet on the top of the hill right down over my land, just to make his own road, as if a road was of use up there," said Mark Page.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remain 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:
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