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
He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never a man less likely to make his own quietus than plain practical David Dundyke, with his future aspirations and his harmless ambition.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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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