all quiet
Example Sentences
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It was all quiet and business as usual, except for the roaring trucks that were spraying foamy "detergent" on the pavement.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
There had been suggestions Arsenal would have moved for a left-sided player with speculation around the future of Gabriel Martinelli, but it looked all quiet until Havertz's injury.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025
Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick are empathetic in the leads, while Daniel Henshall is all quiet menace as the establishment’s most boorish regular.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2024
And Farrell, giving a career-best performance, is all quiet, gentle heartbreak, showing us Pádraic realizing that he’s smaller than he thought he was, and that he doesn’t know how to get bigger.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
We were all quiet for a while, and then Talloi broke the silence.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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