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How to use the word QUIETLY in a Sentence? Page #4

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Every single black character in that film is positive and highly intelligent, so, 28 years ago, that's quite revolutionary, and quietly so.

Alan Rickman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were wrongly arrested for 14 years without any charge against us but we are not looking for revenge. We want to live in Ghana quietly and peacefully and we want to put our life together.

Bin Atef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So if they choose not to recite the pledge, they stand quietly. Nothing is forced on the child. kids can not be required to say it, but leading in the recitation of it is as constitutional as the national motto In God We Trust.

Hiram Sasser

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We teach the children to be respectful, so if they choose not to recite the pledge, they stand quietly. Nothing is forced on the child.

Principal Sassano

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm quietly waiting for a bigger covering bounce that will presage the next leg lower in WTI.

Tariq Zahir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Once, when walking through a town recently destroyed by the tsunami, I came across two men sitting on the front of a flattened house. They were sharing a book and sitting there quietly reading; it was humbling and has left a lasting impression on me. Sri Lankans are a resilient people that have stuck together in the face of tremendous adversity.

Linda Ruck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You get really excited and make changes, and then very quietly you go back to the clutter.

Courtney Carver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My intent here was not to embarrass China or The Chinese president Xi Jinping. It was really to encourage them to release Sandy in the lead-up to the state visit, i concluded from my research that if I remain quiet and do nothing, that my wife is just going to end up being quietly crushed by a Chinese criminal justice system that has absolutely no justice in it, or no real rule of law.

Jeff Gillis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am quietly optimistic we will get there. But if we don't we are going to take alternative action.

Chief Executive Paul Wright

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I’m going to stay in this conversation, i’m not going to go away quietly.

Monsignor Charles Pope

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Senator Paul has no chance of wining the nomination and the people of Kentucky should not allow him the privilege of remaining their senator. Rand should save his lobbyist's and special interest money and just go quietly home, rand's campaign is a total mess, and as a matter of fact, I didn't know he had anybody left in his campaign to make commercials who are not currently under indictment!

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I chose and I have chosen to stay and to make them play their hand, and whatever that brings on me that brings, i feel that it is absolutely essential for the cause of liberty to have these clandestine operations to control public officials exposed. So I refuse to leave quietly and have decided that these efforts really need to come out.

Republican Michigan Rep. Todd Courser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This ship embraces every single known bit of high-tech that is required to equip it and allow it to maintain the toughest missions, it will go to all corners of this globe, all seven seas, and quietly perform a mission and disappear into the darkness of night and nobody will ever know that it was there.

John Warner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe that the policy should be that we always want freedom in Cuba, we want democracy to change the relationship, but based on facts. In this case, there aren't even promises that he's received to do this. And dictators are not going to leave quietly at night, they don't leave. We must be vigilant and this president does not recognize that.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe that the policy should be that we always want freedom in Cuba, we want democracy to change the relationship, but based on facts, in this case, there aren't even promises that he's received to do this. And dictators are not going to leave quietly at night. They don't leave. We must be vigilant and this president does not recognize that.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We very quietly have been on this long-term investigation.

David Daleiden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Iran Human Rights Farghadani’s crazy to think her name spread as a result of a cartoon, because she has done so many wonderful things to help humanity, doing things quietly and not wanting credit.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There have been other people saying those price points, but a little bit more quietly. This is helping to reinforce that's the place we're going.

John Zahurancik

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're still in 1959, that's the beauty of the city, and eventually all of this is going to change, real estate developers from the U.S. have been flying to Cuba very quietly, taking notes, taking photos and putting together their Cuba investment plans. I don't blame them. There are a lot of opportunities here.

Hugo Cancio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Real estate developers from the U.S. have been flying to Cuba very quietly, taking notes, taking photos and putting together their Cuba investment plans. I don't blame them. There are a lot of opportunities here.

Hugo Cancio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Your grief is our grief, we can only hope that, in time, we will find common purpose towards diminishing the causes of such violent crimes. For now, we just want to be there for Marc, our incredibly caring son who loved his brother very much, and to say goodbye, ever so tenderly and quietly to Jean, our love.

Roxanne Dube

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Some Muslims...[have] sat quietly by as the Islamic State uses brutal violence that is not antithetical to Islam and only objects on tactics.

Rick Santorum

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Japan officially does not admit it negotiates with terrorists, historically, it has quietly worked behind the scenes to pay terrorists off.

Boston University

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We take our obligation to assess the security risk of detainees seriously prior to transfers. As a result, more than 90 percent of detainees transferred during the Obama administration live quietly around the world, each of these five individuals was unanimously approved for transfer more nearly five years ago by six departments and agencies through the 2009 executive order task force.

Paul Lewis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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