Sample Sentences for
quell
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    As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.  (source)
    quell = stop or suppress
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    Miss Maudie's tin roof quelled the flames.  (source)
    quelled = stopped
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    There was a ripple of laughter, instantly quelled by the look Snape gave the class.  (source)
    quelled = stopped (suppressed)
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    He pushes his hands against his stomach in an attempt to quell the cramps invading his guts.†  (source)
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    Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.  (source)
    quelled = stopped or suppressed
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    Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.  (source)
    quelling = suppressing
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    Then lightly they learn'd me, my people, this lore, E'en the best that there be of the wise of the churls, O Hrothgar the kingly, that thee should I seek to, Whereas of the might of my craft were they cunning; For they saw me when came I from out of my wargear, Blood-stain'd from the foe whenas five had I bounden, 420 Quell'd the kin of the eotens, and in the wave slain The nicors by night-tide: strait need then I bore, Wreak'd the grief of the Weders, the woe they had gotten; I ground down the wrathful; and now against Grendel I here with the dread one alone shall be dooming, In Thing with the giant.†  (source)
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    Needless to say, this preemptively quells any impulse I may have had to ask about the drinking.†  (source)
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    "Yes, thank you, Phineas," said Dumbledore quellingly.†  (source)
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    Before it came to that, I'd try to quell his suspicions.†  (source)
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    ...a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.  (source)
    quelled = stopped or suppressed
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    "Maia, no," Bat said; she shot him a quelling look.†  (source)
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    Then the lord of the earl-folk to every and each one 1050 Of them who with Beowulf the sea-ways had worn Then and there on the mead-bench did handsel them treasure, An heir-loom to wit; for him also he bade it That a were-gild be paid, whom Grendel aforetime By wickedness quell'd, as far more of them would he, Save from them God all-witting the weird away wended, And that man's mood withal.†  (source)
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What not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?  (source)
quell = murder
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