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
The dogs had played their part well, keeping such a close watch upon the bears that we had no difficulty in giving them their quietus.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof
Vocabulary lists containing quietus
Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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