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be qui·et

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  1. close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mumverb

    refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent

    "The children shut up when their father approached"

    Synonyms:
    block, shut away, belt up, hush, button up, dummy, impede, lock away, lock up, hush up, still, dummy up, clam up, close up, keep mum, close, close down, obstruct, put away, lock in, fold, obturate, lock, shut down, quieten, shut up, jam, silence, occlude

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#390still
#735close
#1662block
#3411lock
#5259jam
#6423fold
#6644silence
#13245dummy
#19241hush
#29400impede
#39730obstruct
#205593occlude
#243815quieten

How to use be quiet in a sentence?

  1. Bill Cosby:

    Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

  2. Diana Davis:

    It's a very comfortable, quiet life there (in the U.S.). Great people, wonderful relationships, but for me, there's a lack of contrast in all that abundance. When there are no difficulties, you can't understand what happiness is.

  3. Durham Sr.:

    My son just stayed quiet and had the guy’s change in his hand, [He] just stayed quiet while the other two was in confrontation.

  4. Armando Castro:

    These kids sometimes overreact to the smallest things. Or they keep their heads down and get real quiet. Then I know something is wrong.

  5. Donald Trump:

    The first person that congratulated [ Biden ] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with... Bibi Netanyahu could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake.


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