adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cry quietly/softly
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People sat crying softly among the wreckage.
live peacefully/quietly/happily etc
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The two communities live peacefully alongside each other.
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She thought that she would get married and live happily ever after like in a children’s story .
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Some people like to live dangerously.
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Most elderly people prefer to live independently if they can.
quietly confident
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He is quietly confident that there will be no problems this time.
quietly/silently
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He was weeping quietly, allowing the tears to run down his cheeks.
sit quietly (= without talking )
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Mac sat quietly in the back of the car.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
confident
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He is quietly confident that there will be no problems this time.
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As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
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Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development.
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Then she moved a little in front, quietly confident now, the Rabari genius embodied in her.
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Chief Inspector Berret was quietly confident .
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We were quietly confident that whatever might happen to Hsu Fu we would be able to give the raft the best chance.
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Rover, too, is quietly confident .
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Red Rock West is a slow-burn thriller, wry and dry, implausible and quietly confident about itself.
■ VERB
drop
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His cooperation over the Dayton agreement led to talk of war crimes charges being quietly dropped , only to resurface over Kosovo.
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One day he was quietly dropped .
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It would be in everyone's interests if the plans were quietly dropped .
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A familiar Dream Team face dropped quietly into town on Monday, and another will be seen on Tuesday.
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Knowing that our minds are elsewhere, banks and building societies will quietly drop the rates on our savings account.
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But the least bad option for Britain would be for the project of Emu itself to be quietly dropped .
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She heard him drop quietly on the other side, and draw the bolt.
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Critics claim that the courts in effect quietly dropped the just desserts policy two years ago.
go
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I went below, then took off my shoes and went quietly up the other stairs to watch him.
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Intel judged the flaw to be minor, hid the truth from customers and quietly went about correcting the problem.
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When the message came, he left the smithy and went quietly up to the castle.
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Richard Lamm, who believes seniors owe it to the nation to go quietly , inexpensively and soon.
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She used her key and went quietly into the house.
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But not all well-off, high-profile defendants go quietly .
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She liked to go quietly , not ask too many questions, never to interfere.
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Instead, she quietly went to her local doctor for anti-inflammatory drugs.
laugh
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Then Sandison laughed quietly and Maidstone smiled.
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Jim Feng laughed quietly: a monotone chuckling.
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The man got on to the ship, and talked and laughed quietly with his friends.
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She laughs quietly to herself, as if she is remembering some family story, then looks sad.
leave
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Just quietly leave a picture of Danniella Westbrook's disintegrating nose on the kitchen table.
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Put three movie fans in front of the computer, start the game and quietly leave .
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And in the morning she would pack up and quietly leave , would never see this disturbing family again.
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Peter flipped one to Jim and quietly left the room.
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Candotti nodded once and then again, as though confirming something, and left quietly .
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If on the other hand they wished him to go, he should be told immediately so that the could leave quietly .
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They left quietly when asked but their pictures gave fun to the newspapers.
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After my friends had left quietly , some two hours later, I undressed and tumbled into bed.
lie
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I lay quietly , to see what would happen next.
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It would be so much better to have cots down there, so that we could lie quietly while the planes passed.
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He was able to lie quietly and calmly without feeling guilt-ridden about his idleness.
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I lay quietly on my bed most of the day, and Charlotte sat in the next room writing.
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He lay quietly for a long while, getting his bearings, remembering how he came to be in this bed.
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It was a dark night and she lay quietly until she was satisfied that her parents were asleep.
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The child lay quietly against his chest, on the brink of sleep and so obviously relishing their closeness.
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Afterwards, they lay quietly together, wrapped in each other's arms, smiling a little, totally at peace.
live
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He retired to live quietly at first at Oatlands Park, maintaining his religious Nonconformity.
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A lawn-mowing, mall-shopping, jeep-commuting suburbanite, he lives quietly in Acton with his wife and two sons and shuns publicity.
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In recent years, Bradman lived quietly in an Adelaide suburb, protecting his privacy and rarely venturing out.
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Now Mr Ghazala lives quietly and writes books in Cairo.
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He continued his travels, but for the most part lived quietly in Sussex.
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The family lived quietly in their house.
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He lived quietly in Nuremberg for a further seventeen years until his death in 1634.
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After a few years' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow.
move
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She moved quietly , her bony old hands precise and efficient.
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I moved quietly and slowly, pressing myself against the outer wall of the building.
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He loves his back-seat role, moving quietly up and down the lines, constantly persuading and cajoling.
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The bills quietly moved through legislative committees and were adopted by both chambers on the final night of the session.
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Then moving quietly along the landing in his bare feet, he came to Jenny's bedroom door.
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Marion Aluinn moved quietly away from behind the doorpost.
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The firing continued for another hour, and I moved quietly through the trees to the shore.
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His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power.
sit
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Then we asked the students to sit quietly with their eyes closed and think about the costs.
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They sit quietly on the locker-room benches, their faces solemn, their eyes averted.
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But one evening - a full hour before her usual meal - I sat quietly in the armchair, reading.
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I sat quietly and listened to their exchange.
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When you finish, sit quietly for several moments, at first with your eyes closed and later with your eyes opened.
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At their services they sat quietly , eyes lowered and hands folded, waiting for the Spirit to prompt some one to speak.
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The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes.
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So they could sit quietly adding block after block to various buildings they were constructing.
sitting
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When I got up to go to bed, I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire.
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Linda turns to John, who, eggs long finished, has been sitting quietly .
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Police eyebrows were raised when they described how they prayed sitting quietly in a circle.
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I looked down at the two ships sitting quietly on the ground.
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Sammy, who had been sitting quietly by their feet, jumped up and began barking.
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Cross-country running did you good; and haddock; and sitting quietly in deck-chairs.
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Yuan was sitting quietly behind him.
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He was sitting quietly , drinking his tea.
slip
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She got up and slipped quietly out of the door.
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Then he kissed my forehead and quietly slipped out of the room.
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Theda slipped quietly into the house, leaving them to their quarrel.
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It was no longer possible to slip quietly by, and we walked within open range of the farms.
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He wasn't doing any showing off when he slipped quietly away into Orrie's shed.
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Harriet hesitated, then her natural impatience won the day and she slipped quietly towards the exit.
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I slipped quietly across the courtyard, pushed open the door and stepped into the darkness.
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The following day Agrippa announced we would leave and we slipped quietly out of Nottingham and took the road south.
speak
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Miklós, in his middle fifties, is a tall, quietly spoken but imposing figure, very self-possessed.
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Sadlowski spoke quietly , moderately, as if he was the statesman and not McBride.
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The man spoke quietly to the horse, soothing it.
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She was speaking quietly , and there were screams in the background, along with the unmistakable sound of children crying.
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Horowitz had spoken quietly , the words spaced out.
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Father and Edna spoke quietly about the park, the tourists, and mentioned some veterans' gatherings and the World Series.
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He was, however, quietly spoken , and also very humorous.
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As she assembled the supplies, he spoke quietly from the next room. ` I think a rib broke.
stand
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He was standing quietly and hadn't spoken at all.
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One of them quietly stands up, bows to the other, and then gets off alone at his stop.
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Three young Arabs got out and stood quietly talking together.
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Among those watching the Fremont Street Experience are dozens of children, including the one who stands quietly near Elvis.
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Tallis just stood quietly , cloak around her shoulders, iron-bladed spear held in two hands.
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A comrade loosened his grasp, and his faithful gray stood quietly ...
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Different types of customer Stand quietly for about five minutes in any busy shop and study the different shoppers.
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He stood quietly and watched the boxes being unloaded.
talk
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They stayed there, talking quietly together until Annunziata came in to lay the table.
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Claude and Ruth were talking quietly with Pat, who sat cross-legged on the sofa.
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He passed the Post Office, where a young black man, tall and well dressed, stood talking quietly to himself.
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Everyone else in the tent talked quietly , keeping a space around the mourning man.
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He didn't talk quietly - he shouted at me.
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Instead, we teach our children to talk quietly , to talk less, and to stay out of the way.
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That way his head is right next to John's, and they can talk quietly .
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The two companies had been talking quietly since April.
wait
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In the prison Justine waited quietly for death.
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Lou Taylor remembered seeing an older resident just sitting, by the doorway of her house, quietly waiting .
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I was instructed not to be too early - to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself.
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Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die.
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She waited quietly , and then looked down the road.
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Just after a quarter to one, I came to the pipe and waited quietly in its shadow.
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Usually he just sat at his desk and waited quietly for four o'clock to come, when he could go home.
walk
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He was just quietly walking into the wall, while the rest of us stood around in an awkward half-circle.
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The guy he was referring to was walking quietly to-ward us, a sergeant wearing a white helmet and bright armbands.
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In choked desolation, she watched him walk quietly to the door and let himself out.
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I have been prepared for defeat, have welcomed failure, and have quietly walked away from every enterprise that engaged me.
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Feeling shaken and hurt, she walked quietly upstairs.
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He turned off the light, walked quietly to the stairs, and started up.
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A number of people were walking quietly to and fro, studying the architecture, referring to guide-books and conversing in low voices.
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I can now walk quietly except for a low, muffled crunching under my footsteps.
work
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I prefer to work quietly behind the scenes.
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He worked quietly behind her, one and a-two, breathing through his nose.
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He found her quietly working in her office, surveying the extent of her financial empire on a monitor screen.
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After five several family members were there, and it was hard to work quietly .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quietly/softly-spoken
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I'm sorry," she said quietly .
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The meeting was quietly arranged to avoid reporters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compared with them, however, Harry possessed one crucial advantage: the right to decide that he would not go quietly .
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I moved quietly and slowly, pressing myself against the outer wall of the building.
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I sat quietly and listened to their exchange.
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Insects, worn out after a night of chirping, were quietly asleep.
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The film is quietly handed over to the Flag Day chairman, and his office distributes it.
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The patrol moves quietly from its position of all-round defence.
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When he wins, he looks quietly pleased.