quietus

Example Sentences

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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2019

What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He received his quietus, never fear," declared Gaston.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)