dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

subdue
in a sentence
grouped by contextual meaning

subdue as a verb as in: subdued the opposition

show 10 more with this conextual meaning
  • The government subdued the uprising.
    subdued = put down or brought it under control
  • My instinct was to worship, to venerate. That was how I felt toward the whole city: that it should be behind glass, adored from a distance, never touched, never altered. My companions moved through the city differently, aware of its significance but not subdued by it.   (source)
    subdued = made quiet
  • At school that day everyone was subdued, even those who had opposed Benazir.   (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
  • "Ladies and gentlemen," one of the guards called, "the rebels have been subdued."   (source)
    subdued = brought under control
  • The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance; outside, alone in the dark, the wind still battered against the house, but the angry power that had frightened Meg while she was alone in the attic was subdued by the familiar comfort of the kitchen.   (source)
    subdued = overcome
  • Subdued, I fixed my attention upon Reverend Sykes, who seemed to be waiting for me to settle down.   (source)
    subdued = under control
  • It took less than forty-eight hours to subdue the city.   (source)
    subdue = defeat and bring under control
  • Those who were aware that a ship had passed the island while the fire was out were subdued by the thought of Ralph's anger; while those, including the littluns who did not know, were impressed by the general air of solemnity.   (source)
    subdued = made quiet
  • Across the subdued children's heads Kit and Mercy faced their two visitors, Mr. Eleazer Kimberley, the schoolmaster, and the Reverend John Woodbridge.   (source)
    subdued = brought under control
  • The generals would have known better how to subdue a raging jabberwock than a mourning child.   (source)
    subdue = get under control
▲ show less (of above)
show 89 more with this conextual meaning
  • Slim gazed at him for a moment and then looked down at his hands; he subdued one hand with the other, and held it down.   (source)
    subdued = brought under control
  • The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.   (source)
    subdued = calmed (brought under control)
  • When her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action.   (source)
    subduing = bringing under control
  • "Is the world, then, so narrow?" exclaimed Hester Prynne, fixing her deep eyes on the minister's, and instinctively exercising a magnetic power over a spirit so shattered and subdued that it could hardly hold itself erect.   (source)
    subdued = quieted (left without intensity or strength)
  • They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.   (source)
    subdued = made less intense
  • Just something to subdue this confusion.†   (source)
  • A group of men would figure out how to overpower the Bird, who was quite fit and would be difficult to subdue.†   (source)
  • His idea of Latin was Caesar subduing the Gauls and crossing the Rubicon, alea iacta est; and, after that, selections from Virgil's Aeneid — he was fond of the suicide of Dido — or from C)vid's Metamorphoses, the parts where unpleasant things were done by the gods to various young women.†   (source)
  • They worry that if a person gets upset or becomes violent, being uncuffed will make him or her harder to subdue.†   (source)
  • Graceful and unhurried, as if unaware of the chaos around them, they set about subduing the panicking Smokies.†   (source)
  • They walked three times around the lake, trying all the way to think of a simple spell that would subdue a dragon.†   (source)
  • It made him think he had to subdue me.†   (source)
  • It took three men to subdue him.†   (source)
  • He trembled with the desire to conquer and subdue.†   (source)
  • If they could do something only Beckendorf could do, if they could subdue the dragon without killing it, then maybe their curse would be lifted.†   (source)
  • Mama Elena took comfort in the hope that she had finally managed to subdue her youngest daughter.†   (source)
  • Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.†   (source)
  • Numbers would subdue even magic.†   (source)
  • I think his original plan was to subdue me and kidnap me and let it look like a runaway-wife thing, because when I wake up, he's just finished mopping the blood in the kitchen, and he's straightened the table of little antique ornaments that fell over when I ran to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Evening only strengthened the wind, instead of subduing it.†   (source)
  • She attempts to subdue me by putting her hands on my shoulders, but I spin away from her.†   (source)
  • She whispered something over the bones, and put them into a small pouch, not much different from the pouch she had given me to subdue the power of the locket.†   (source)
  • The conductor and several male passengers tried to subdue him, but he shook them off and raced for the door.†   (source)
  • But my father needs permission only from the Saviour, who obviously is all in favor of subduing the untamed wilderness for a garden.†   (source)
  • Iris rich voice effortlessly filled the house, seemed to fix and subdue the mounting wave of excitement.†   (source)
  • In the stands Leigh Anne Tuohy watched as two, then three, then four grown men tried to subdue Michael Oher, and then coax him into allowing them to examine his hand.†   (source)
  • The Masked Avenger, and Flash Gordon, even one about Frank Buck, the man who went to Africa to catch wild animals and who could subdue lions and tigers just by staring at them.†   (source)
  • It took us three days to subdue them, and even then we had to call in heavy air support to enable us to get out.†   (source)
  • With the help of an off-duty sanitation worker, Goetz managed to subdue one of his three attackers.†   (source)
  • Miss Violet tried to subdue him.†   (source)
  • I gather it up and plait it into a long braid to subdue it.†   (source)
  • The troop struggled to subdue the overflowing crowd with their rifle butts.†   (source)
  • How simple it was to subdue the Bene Gesserit.†   (source)
  • But if people imagined that Bree's failed marriage would subdue her, they were wrong.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes but could not subdue the welling sense of betrayal.†   (source)
  • Those humans who were aware of us before insertion are more difficult to subdue.†   (source)
  • Dewey-and the majority of his colleagues, as well-favored the second hypothesis, which in many essentials followed the first, the important difference being that the killer was not alone but had an accomplice, who helped subdue the family, tape, and tie them.†   (source)
  • She was covered with mud, and in the wet, slick grass was proving hard to subdue.†   (source)
  • "How does she come to be here with a cap and apron on to-night?" pursued Stoddard, with an edge to his tone which he could not wholly subdue.†   (source)
  • Can't subdue my nausea.†   (source)
  • And now by violence they lock us in—you and me, old man: subdue our vile unkingly violence.†   (source)
  • From this angle, they were obscured from the view of the officers who were mobilizing to subdue everyone.†   (source)
  • Younger, stronger, far more muscular, he knew he could subdue Moody if it came to that, and Moody knew it too.†   (source)
  • The hag had been terrified of-the small blond boy ever since her failed attempt to subdue and eat him the previous Halloween.†   (source)
  • I fear, Sam, that they believe your master has a deadly wound that will subdue him to their will.†   (source)
  • Should this be the case, since we have (I may say) all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas, and then the united force of all Europe, will not be able to subdue us.†   (source)
  • In her anguished state, I could not subdue or gainsay her, so I resolved to go with her.†   (source)
  • The box with the baits was under the stern of the skiff along with the club that was used to subdue the big fish when they were brought alongside.†   (source)
  • Do you know what it would take to subdue the earth?†   (source)
  • Frantically, Jason went through the agonizing process of relaying destination and credit card numbers, accompanied by the beeps and stutters of an overseas call to the Caribbean, and, finally, after subduing some idiot at the front desk of Tranquility Inn, got through to his brother-in-law.†   (source)
  • If they will not see this, then they will attempt to subdue us by force....and we will fight back.†   (source)
  • As Walt walked into the room to subdue the man, another man sat up from under some blankets.†   (source)
  • They gave themselves, as the Indian did, to nature, not trying to subdue it, or pervert it, but to live with it.†   (source)
  • We haven't met Hairy Jack yet,' Rosalind told her, with subduing effect.†   (source)
  • The barbarian and Catti-brie fought hard to subdue their laughter.†   (source)
  • The larger ggeh depend solely on this notion, that the lessons of the culture will be stronger than a momentary lack, can subdue any individual weakness or want.†   (source)
  • Fellow officers who were trying to subdue him would never have considered waking up the English.†   (source)
  • They will tackle and subdue the assailant without fear for their own lives.†   (source)
  • GOD BLESSED THEM AND SAID TO THEM, "BE FRUITFUL AND INCREASE IN NUMBER; FILL THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT.†   (source)
  • The usurpers would abandon their advantage in the first State to subdue the opposition in others.†   (source)
  • There was no subduing Kali, as I well knew.†   (source)
  • A greater force might subdue it, but that is not the answer.†   (source)
  • It not only reduces the pain but it subdues the nausea.†   (source)
  • Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it!†   (source)
  • Her arms pinning him with unexpected strength, she kissed him wildly, as if her mouth could subdue and mold and change him.†   (source)
  • and upon these words a sob leapt up through him which he could not subdue but could only hope to conceal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if the American people more fully compre-hended the terrible pressures which discourage acts of political courage, which drive a Senator to abandon or subdue his conscience, then they might be less critical of those who take the easier road—and more appreciative of those still able to follow the path of courage.†   (source)
  • The fever was subdued; the fever had been his complaint; of course he would soon be well again.   (source)
    subdued = overcome (brought under control)
  • "Dost thou know thy mother now, child?", asked she, reproachfully, but with a subdued tone.   (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
  • I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair.   (source)
    subdued = overcome
  • ...said she, with a smile; but it was a smile ill-suited to the conversation that had passed, a saucy playful smile, seeming to invite in order to subdue me; at least it appeared so to me.   (source)
    subdue = soften or overcome
  • Till she had shed many tears over this deception, Fanny could not subdue her agitation; and the dejection which followed could only be relieved by the influence of fervent prayers for his happiness.   (source)
    subdue = overcome (get under control)
  • She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rought through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.   (source)
    subdue = soften (make less intense)
  • None knew—nor ever learned with the fulness of perfect certainty—whether the elf-child had gone thus untimely to a maiden grave; or whether her wild, rich nature had been softened and subdued and made capable of a woman's gentle happiness.   (source)
    subdued = calmed
  • His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.   (source)
    subdued = brought under control
  • She either sat in gloomy silence, wrapt in such gravity as nothing could subdue, no curiosity touch, no wit amuse; or allowing the attentions of Mr. Yates, was talking with forced gaiety to him alone, and ridiculing the acting of the others.   (source)
    subdue = overcome
  • Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew. I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.   (source)
    subduing = bringing under control
  • He saw Mrs. Rushworth, was received by her with a coldness which ought to have been repulsive, and have established apparent indifference between them for ever; but he was mortified, he could not bear to be thrown off by the woman whose smiles had been so wholly at his command: he must exert himself to subdue so proud a display of resentment; it was anger on Fanny's account; he must get the better of it, and make Mrs. Rushworth Maria Bertram again in her treatment of himself.   (source)
    subdue = overcome
  • Would he have deserved more, there can be no doubt that more would have been obtained, especially when that marriage had taken place, which would have given him the assistance of her conscience in subduing her first inclination, and brought them very often together.   (source)
    subduing = overcoming
  • When the carriages were really heard, when the guests began really to assemble, her own gaiety of heart was much subdued: the sight of so many strangers threw her back into herself; and besides the gravity and formality of the first great circle, which the manners of neither Sir Thomas nor Lady Bertram were of a kind to do away, she found herself occasionally called on to endure something worse.   (source)
    subdued = made quiet
  • The only way to subdue this suit is to wear more, possibly all my clothing at once.†   (source)
  • She found it increasingly difficult to subdue her terror at the overpowering strangeness in Paul.†   (source)
  • I got out and walked very slowly behind the truck, to subdue my panic.†   (source)
  • My father had to use a number of spells to subdue me.†   (source)
  • He will subdue this woman if he sees her gain control of you.†   (source)
  • "How did your father subdue you?" said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Unless you can subdue her, the rift between Greek and Roman can never be healed.†   (source)
  • Their combined might even allowed them to subdue Arya on two separate occasions.†   (source)
  • It had taken Jamous and his remaining men four hours to subdue the flames.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)

subdued adjective as in: subdued colors or mood

show 10 more with this conextual meaning
  • Her dress was a subdued shade of yellow.
    subdued = soft (not bright)
  • Two days later, when I arrived for our next meeting, he was subdued.   (source)
    subdued = calm (of low intensity)
  • When I reach the limb that supports the nest, the humming becomes more distinctive. But it's still oddly subdued if these are tracker jackers.   (source)
    subdued = mild or quiet
  • The Herbology class was very subdued; there were now two missing from their number, Justin and Hermione.   (source)
    subdued = quiet -- perhaps thoughtful
  • Driving back in the fading light, Malcolm seemed oddly subdued.   (source)
    subdued = quiet and less active than normal
  • T.J., however, was surprisingly subdued when he settled into the wagon; I suppose that at three-thirty in the morning even T.J.'s mouth was tired.   (source)
    subdued = less intense
  • "By the way," he said in an even more subdued voice, "we aren't going to talk about this."   (source)
    subdued = mild
  • The assembly murmured in subdued agreement.   (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
  • Bep is also very subdued.   (source)
    subdued = quiet
  • The demeanour of the black-uniformed men suddenly became more subdued.   (source)
    subdued = less intense
▲ show less (of above)
show 12 more with this conextual meaning
  • A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond, and Miss Baker leaned forward unashamed, trying to hear.   (source)
    subdued = quiet
  • She lifted her head and stepped lightly along, her eyes fixed on the sunset sky and an air of subdued exhilaration about her.   (source)
  • But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.   (source)
    subdued = soft (not loud)
  • The meal's subdued.   (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
  • No question, it's acting a little subdued, but the wasp is up and moving and that means the others will be out soon as well.   (source)
    subdued = calm
  • Fred and George challenged Harry and Ron to a few games of Exploding Snap, and Ginny sat watching them, very subdued in Hermione's usual chair.   (source)
    subdued = quiet -- perhaps thoughtful
  • So subdued, in fact, that there are long periods of silence relieved only by the removal of old dishes and presentation of new ones.   (source)
    subdued = not intense, or less active
  • Then we walked on toward the center of the beach, where there was a subdued New England strip of honky-tonks.   (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
  • But it was a subdued group that headed back to the fireside in the Leaky Cauldron, where Harry, the Weasleys, and all their shopping would be traveling back to the Burrow using Floo powder.   (source)
    subdued = quiet -- perhaps thoughtful
  • A subdued slam above told that the door of the east gable had been shut with equal vehemence.   (source)
    subdued = less intense
  • [subduedly] Come, mother: we must leave them to talk over the arrangements†   (source)
  • [He looks round apprehensively Seeing no one within earshot he plucks up courage to boom again, but more subduedly]†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 10 more examples with any meaning
  • "Perhaps we should leave that item till later," said Richard in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • Coming as it did—in the more subdued years after the failed revolt of 1905—many considered it a call to action.†   (source)
  • It's possible he realized I was a bit subdued, because he leaned into me a little.†   (source)
  • Despite her rants against him when he wasn't around, Nana was subdued and mannerly when Jalil visited.†   (source)
  • The blankets, scarves, and gloves were beautiful, in subdued colors and simple patterns, but Shay insisted that Tally get a city-made sleeping bag.†   (source)
  • MOORE (subdued): I think it was.†   (source)
  • Theirs had been the most subdued table before he had gotten to his feet, and theirs were still the saddest and palest faces in the Hall.†   (source)
  • Subdued laughter filled the room for a few seconds.†   (source)
  • The doctor said Hansford had to be subdued and secluded because he was "dangerous to the hospital staff and to himself."†   (source)
  • Subdued, pinned to the earth.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 190 more examples with any meaning
  • Everyone was quiet, subdued, as we rolled out of the parking lot.†   (source)
  • She seemed subdued.†   (source)
  • When she came out, she was subdued again.†   (source)
  • Because she liked to sing along with Sinatra, she preferred his voice before the war—when he was more subdued and less of a star, when Tommy Dorsey kept him in balance with the band.†   (source)
  • He knew that meant their mutiny had been short-lived, all three of them subdued in less than a minute.†   (source)
  • As Sylvie continued down the hall, she finally found a lounge where the mood was subdued ....almost melancholy.†   (source)
  • Maven bites his lip, looking subdued.†   (source)
  • The mood in their meeting that night was subdued: no bickering, no laughter, only a general feeling of grim resolve.†   (source)
  • Subdued, maybe, even sad.†   (source)
  • But lately, the sister was not casting her mirthless smile in the direction of the probationers, nor speaking to them in the subdued voice that gave them such terrors.†   (source)
  • A subdued Chinese New Year had passed.†   (source)
  • He's subdued, for Reznik.†   (source)
  • The lighting was rather subdued and it took him a moment or so to see Ford, Trillian and Zaphod sitting round a large table beautifully decked out with exotic dishes, strange sweetmeats and bizarre fruits.†   (source)
  • She smiled, but there was something sad in it "I knew you'd figure it out," she said in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • "Well —" His tone was both brisk and subdued and I recognized it at once since it was much the tone I employed when people asked about my mother.†   (source)
  • McAllister (who is a high school graduate) seems subdued.†   (source)
  • There was a subdued, "No ....but the king—"†   (source)
  • Over dinner she kept her eyes down, poking at her food, subdued to the point of silence.†   (source)
  • He sometimes wondered what had happened to transform his mother from the laughing, tender woman to whom the scent of lilac clung into the pale and subdued and antiseptic woman who seldom left the house, who lurked behind window curtains.†   (source)
  • Viviana appeared distant, subdued.†   (source)
  • Emerging into the clearing behind them and forming another circle of larger lights stood those whom Mack presumed were adults like himself, colorfully brilliant and yet subdued.†   (source)
  • She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person.†   (source)
  • The Shrike pilgrims were subdued, as if still contemplating Colonel Kassad's grim and confusing tale.†   (source)
  • Mom subdued him pretty easily by promising he could sign up for hockey, something he wanted to do in Texas.†   (source)
  • Even the fire seemed subdued when they took a breath.†   (source)
  • I thought I saw, in his faint smile, the kind of subdued pride men often seem to feel when gazing on their own children.†   (source)
  • He seemed subdued, immersed in his own gloomy thoughts.†   (source)
  • I parked in the last row and hurried to English, arriving breathless, but subdued, before the final bell.†   (source)
  • "Yes, honored," Seivarden replied, subdued.†   (source)
  • Wherritt again went wild, and again the conductor and his allies subdued him, but they were growing tired.†   (source)
  • Soiled and subdued, she looked like a small malnourished relative of my previous sister.†   (source)
  • No returning sound this time, but her eyes fell on something beneath the batwing doors of the Colorado Lounge, something that gleamed faintly in the subdued light.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he stood in an animated wrangle with one of the citizens—or held a subdued conversation with his young pupil Plato.†   (source)
  • When I was subdued finally, and exhausted then almost to the point of death, they bled me.†   (source)
  • His runes changed to a subdued magenta.†   (source)
  • Ramius' voice was subdued, the crewmen noticed.†   (source)
  • It's a nice one, a corporate jet chopper, dark green, with subdued markings.†   (source)
  • Those Pashtuns are proud of their stern military heritage, and it's worth remembering that in all the centuries of bitter, savage warfare in Baluchistan, during which time they were never subdued, half the population was always Pashtun.†   (source)
  • The lunch was brief, there were just the two of them, and its tone was subdued.†   (source)
  • Bjurman's smile might have been more subdued if he could have read her thoughts behind the expressionless eyes.†   (source)
  • Everyone was subdued by what had occurred, but by afternoon the work of the harvest raised our spirits.†   (source)
  • Sitting in the front seat, between Dodo and my mother, I felt dumb and subdued.†   (source)
  • Stilgar glanced at the man Paul had subdued—Jamis.†   (source)
  • Wayne Haverly, live and on the scene, announced that in a strange twist in the Virgil Byrnes case, a local accountant had gained entry to Mr. Byrnes's home, where he lay in wait and subdued him.†   (source)
  • Within weeks I had them subdued.†   (source)
  • While everyone in the cafeteria was noticeably more subdued than usual, Dan felt like all the sadness in the room originated at his table.†   (source)
  • Afternoon classes were subdued.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow would he quiet, the world subdued and fragile, until the neighborhood children came out to break the stillness with their tracks and shouts and joy.†   (source)
  • So much more subdued than the Bach,' she says in a snooty voice.†   (source)
  • It made me think of the fifth century A. D. Men standing around campfires speaking in subdued tones in their Turkic and Mongol dialects.†   (source)
  • She was a small, subdued woman with a brittle perm that looked as if it had been done that afternoon.†   (source)
  • While Savannah chattered on in her usual manner about what the day had in store, Nathan was subdued.†   (source)
  • The sound of her voice, swift, subdued, and unhappy, had the effect of jolting him out of his own bewilderment.†   (source)
  • The monkeys were quiet and subdued, but they rattled their cages now and then.†   (source)
  • Fledglings were already starting to come into the rec hall, but they were being pretty subdued and hanging out in the corners of the large room in clusters while they watched the Twins and Stevie Rae light the white candles that would form the circumference of the circle.†   (source)
  • When he eventually returned to school, he was a subdued figure.†   (source)
  • Continuing in a subdued voice, she said, "After they left, I was not so brave.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, Garden City, which was once a rather raucous frontier town, is quite subdued.†   (source)
  • Milo, Tock, and the very subdued Humbug sat proudly in the royal carriage with Azaz, the Mathemagician, and the two princesses; and the parade stretched for miles in both directions.†   (source)
  • A subdued laughter went around the courtroom but the judge wasnt laughing nor the bailiff.†   (source)
  • The whole camp was subdued by Deets's death.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he found misanthropy an excellent means of developing character: when he subdued his revulsion and occasionally touched, helped, counseled, or befriended somebody, he was able to think of his behavior as generous and his intentions as noble.†   (source)
  • The suggestion of Stoddard's making advances of unseemly warmth to Mandy Meacham produced a subdued snicker.†   (source)
  • The violet gray sky, the same sky Paris has seen every day since the temperature dropped, has subdued it, stripped away its golden gleam, but I am no less intrigued.†   (source)
  • Her tone was so subdued she might have been telling me to cook a pot of rice.†   (source)
  • 'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone.†   (source)
  • Shay was subdued, shuffling, fidgety.†   (source)
  • "Are you all right, my boy?" the man asked in a subdued British accent.†   (source)
  • Moody was more subdued, less challenging, more calculating than before.†   (source)
  • Ann and I extend our hands and make our subdued greetings.†   (source)
  • The place was subdued and spotlessly clean.†   (source)
  • He had to be subdued, resisted arrest.†   (source)
  • He found them in the conference room, gathered glumly around the table, quiet, subdued, almost mournful as they stared at the walls and looked at a bleak future.†   (source)
  • She was blacker than most and her clothes, even the handkerchief round her head, were subdued in colour.†   (source)
  • Once I get past the shock of looking into a pair of alien eyes, I see assessment and subdued curiosity.†   (source)
  • Subdued, resigned, Papa's life—all our lives—took on a pattern that would hold for the duration of the war.†   (source)
  • As would be said within his own family, "The only impatience of temper he ever exhibited was with his horse, which he subdued to his will by a fearless application of the whip on the slightest manifestation of restiveness."†   (source)
  • Hazel did not reply and after a pause, during which no one else spoke, Dandelion, with a rather subdued manner, began.†   (source)
  • Bert was still subdued, but hopeful.†   (source)
  • Then, in a somewhat more subdued tone, he added, "We have Popsicles, too."†   (source)
  • The mood of the house is subdued and calm.†   (source)
  • There was not laughter or merry shouting from within, and indeed, in the kitchen I found only a sullen Jane Martin distracting Tom with a finger of arrowroot and water, while Jamie, all subdued, played alone by the hearth, making towers from the bavins and thus strewing bits of broken kindling everywhere.†   (source)
  • He was subdued.†   (source)
  • Finally she disappeared into a nearby classroom, and Henry shut his locker, his shoulders sagging, his jovial demeanor subdued.†   (source)
  • He's pale and subdued, all his bluster gone.†   (source)
  • They d settled on this more subdued but still nationally broadcast affair.†   (source)
  • All those national media vans have finally disappeared from hanging all over town, and I think life is slowly returning to a subdued sort of normal.†   (source)
  • "I defer to you," Attolia said, subdued.†   (source)
  • She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down.†   (source)
  • It came, a twitter, a coo, a subdued roar that seemed trying to tell me something, give me some message.†   (source)
  • "I must announce—" The hum of electric typewriters and subdued conversations drowned out her words.†   (source)
  • That would seem to suggest that Lord Tytos has not been subdued.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Hall said, subdued.†   (source)
  • But the upperclassmen were not so easily subdued.†   (source)
  • Chapter 11 When Lee thought of family dinners, she thought of quiet meals at a glossy mahogany table laid with heavy Georgian silver, meals where conversation was subdued and polite.†   (source)
  • "Low, ball one," Earl said in a subdued tone.†   (source)
  • After a parade before the crowd and a brief, somewhat subdued ceremony in which Vanderbilt called Seabiscuit "the greatest horse of the year in America," they took Seabiscuit back to his stall.†   (source)
  • His lights rippled, he gave a subdued chuckle.†   (source)
  • They've been oddly subdued around Tía Lourdes and Pilar, and barely speak to them, or to me.†   (source)
  • Next to them was a younger man who could not have seen the war but was subdued exactly as if he had: he could only have been a politician or an orphaned son.†   (source)
  • They seemed to have subdued the hoodlums inside the mills, and only the siege at the front gate remained to be beaten.†   (source)
  • There was a great and joyous meeting between Bree and Cor, and Bree, who was still in a rather subdued frame of mind, agreed to set out for Anvard at once: he and Hwin would cross into Narnia on the following day.†   (source)
  • Instead she was unusually subdued, even as she sang the proper words during our chanting and worked diligently on the third-day weddingbook she was making for me.†   (source)
  • It was a surprisingly subdued business.†   (source)
  • But unlike some of the other girls, animated and anxious to be heard, jumping up and down, giving the reporter details of how Madame Hoffman, the French teacher, had fainted at the window of her classroom when she saw the plane crash into the brick apartment house, and how they sat her up and fanned her face while the president of the French Club ran to see if the school nurse was still in the building, Christina remained subdued.†   (source)
  • Petra announced in a subdued, somewhat expostulatory, tone: 'That was very horrid.'†   (source)
  • He felt curiously subdued for some reason that he couldn't yet understand.†   (source)
  • Following this episode, SSW-89-58 is subdued by the use of a massive dose of tranquilizers administered by a dart gun.†   (source)
  • And if you were to summon an angel of an even higher rank, Michael, or Gabriel— I couldn't make a spell that would bind them, even momentarily," said Magnus in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • His voice had been quiet, subdued, and I wondered if he had been reading any more books on Hasidism.†   (source)
  • He would be the one to bring all the various peoples to the steps of Gracie Mansion, bear them with him not as trophies, or the subdued, but as the living voice of the city, which must always be renewed.†   (source)
  • He was subdued then, no longer the irrepressible Mervyn we used to know, very kind and quiet.†   (source)
  • Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping.†   (source)
  • Estelle McCoy, too, was subdued around her.†   (source)
  • Zooey put out his tongue and gave a subdued, modified Bronx cheer.†   (source)
  • If he subdued a part, the rest would oppose and overpower him.†   (source)
  • Linnie Mae Whitshank was pale and subdued, dressed in a wan flowered shift that could have been bought in a country store, but something about the tracery of smile lines at the corners of her eyes told Abby she might be taking in more than she let on.†   (source)
  • She walked quietly with him to the cabin, unusually subdued.†   (source)
  • In a voice at once subdued and threatening he asked, "Are you complaining that the evidence is circumstantial?†   (source)
  • BY MID-SEPTEMBER the tundra plains burned somberly in the subdued glow of russet and umber where the early frosts had touched the ground cover of low shrubbery.†   (source)
  • The subdued babble of children mounted to excited shouts of welcome.†   (source)
  • He was come to the heart of the realm of Sauron and the forges of his ancient might, greatest in Middle-earth; all other powers were here subdued.†   (source)
  • "It's better," he said in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • It had been just like that, crouched outside Mayor Mullen's window, listening to the subdued, tinny noise of the Mayor's television.†   (source)
  • He had discarded his protective clothing, but still wore dark glasses even in the subdued light of the Common Room.†   (source)
  • He is subdued.†   (source)
  • The universal shortage of aviation gasoline will make any quick aid difficult, however .... The squeal insinuated itself into the voice and subdued it.†   (source)
  • Then, subdued) Shall I, sir?†   (source)
  • Positioning himself closely in front of the Samana, with a concentrated soul, he captured the old man's glance with his glances, deprived him of his power, made him mute, took away his free will, subdued him under his own will, commanded him, to do silently, whatever he demanded him to do.†   (source)
  • The voices, having sobbed their fill,
    Are more subdued.†   (source)
  • Over the rim there was a crackling of flames, a subdued explosion as the gas tank went, and then more crackling.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown seemed more subdued.†   (source)
  • I don't see how his mother's going to bear it, Mary said, in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • She gave it a vicious swipe with her arm and straightened up, muttering, "Collards, collards," in a voice of sultry subdued wrath.†   (source)
  • The pounding of their explosions filled the subdued air; to Joel it was as if a great foot had stamped on the ground.†   (source)
  • Still other Senators have not developed that habit—they have neither conditioned nor subdued their consciences—but they feel, sincerely and without cynicism, that they must leave considerations of conscience aside if they are to be effective.†   (source)
  • A subdued groan went up from the guests and a drunken voice shouted: "I'm just one of the tourists.†   (source)
  • One by one, they drifted away, their gaiety and the pleasure quite subdued, sensing her dislike of them.†   (source)
  • "Do you know what this says?" he asked in a different tone, more subdued than before.†   (source)
  • With a subdued expression, she adjusted her shawl.†   (source)
  • Ron was very subdued all through the class.†   (source)
  • The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.†   (source)
  • Forward, Ramius took the conn in a subdued control room.†   (source)
  • Rachel did not cry, but her eyes were very wide all day and she spoke in subdued tones.†   (source)
  • Our voices were joking but subdued, like boys uneasy in church.†   (source)
  • Eragon was still subdued, even depressed, by the end of the day.†   (source)
  • An uncharacteristically subdued Hasina and her mother came.†   (source)
  • As Jesus spoke, his voice intensified in subdued anguish.†   (source)
  • After dinner, Mr. Fish made a somewhat subdued appearance.†   (source)
  • They'd fought their way out, subdued the guards, flown away in a Berg?†   (source)
  • "Not long," Billy said in a subdued tone.†   (source)
  • 'Bit like Gran, really,' said Neville in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • Down-stairs he found the mood in the Great Hall subdued.†   (source)
  • KING (subdued): Naw, ain't nothing to it.†   (source)
  • Any conversations were low, subdued, so the place felt deserted even with people there.†   (source)
  • "She was a pretty girl, she was, that Itsuko," he said, looking at Nobu with a subdued smile.†   (source)
  • If the mood was subdued at first, it picked up quickly as more and more guests arrived.†   (source)
  • When she spoke again, her voice was subdued.†   (source)
  • His voice was subdued; he'd been in no hurry for me to reach this particular milestone.†   (source)
  • In fact, the eighty-five citizens gathered there seemed strangely subdued and contemplative.†   (source)
  • When evening subdued the sun, the mountains' foothills were a mere league away.†   (source)
  • The emotion she expresses most openly towards him is a subdued gratitude.†   (source)
  • His voice was calm, but I could hear the subdued distaste.†   (source)
  • The packaging on the products lining these shelves was more subdued.†   (source)
  • Donaldson asked, his voice more subdued than anyone expected.†   (source)
  • Hobie and Mr. Bracegirdle were chatting in a subdued way —Mr.†   (source)
  • My cousins were uncharacteristically subdued by the tragedy.†   (source)
  • While they walked, Max's rage subdued into a simmer and he finally felt capable of speaking.†   (source)
  • Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake.†   (source)
  • Even the Greatjon seemed somber and subdued.†   (source)
  • "All clear," he said, keeping his voice subdued.†   (source)
  • The boy seemed much subdued; ministering to Pate had served its purpose, it would seem.†   (source)
  • He wrestled with it, subdued it, and tried to eliminate it but was not altogether successful.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not opposing you, Mr Ambassador,' replied a somewhat subdued Reilly.†   (source)
  • "It's not that far," Simon said, his voice subdued.†   (source)
  • The guys had vacated the place as if leaving the scene of a crime, strangely subdued.†   (source)
  • I was vaguely aware of the subdued voices of the others, greeting Trudy's arrival.†   (source)
  • "Hi, Charlie," she said in a subdued voice.†   (source)
  • I came out of the Federal Building feeling subdued yet not really unhappy.†   (source)
  • Jason selected the most subdued combination in the closet.†   (source)
  • In Jolly Chand's presence he was subdued.†   (source)
  • There should be talking, and there was, but it was definitely subdued.†   (source)
  • At dinner the mothers appeared subdued and exhausted, if they, came to the chow hall at all.†   (source)
  • I'm just a thing to be subdued, used, and discarded.†   (source)
  • As he lit several more candles, he spoke—his voice subdued, almost gentle.†   (source)
  • The phosphorus flares were burning low, the lighting was darker, more sinister and subdued.†   (source)
  • I was trying to figure out how he kept his victims subdued.†   (source)
  • He looked uncomfortable and still subdued.†   (source)
  • You would think we would have had much to say, but we were both subdued.†   (source)
  • She's very pretty," Lucia said with the steely, subdued air of a competitor.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)