Quietens

The baby quietens quickly, as though he has had a bad dream and forgotten it already. ❋ Kate Pullinger (2009)

I love it because for me everything quietens down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everything quietens down, Obama declares victory and can start pulling troops out before 18 months are up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Emotionally drained by the orgasmic power buzz of his thieving, ripping, crushing performance, Broon invariably quietens and, trancelike, becomes his father, standing at his presbie pulpit. ❋ Newmania (2007)

All you have to do is set up a Google news alert with the search term “transit” and you will get a page full of links to US local news sources bewailing the current crisis of transit there every weekday morning it quietens down at weekends. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hope Nicole is great in this film and quietens the naysayers for awhile. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The band quietens down long enough for Bruce to deliver a plaintive and soulful "Darkness on the Edge of Town," which bleeds into "Racing in the Streets," followed by a rousing, yet bitter sweet rendition of "This Land Is Your Land," and finishes on "Nebraska," where the guy is about to be put to death for having gone on a murdering spree. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and Don Imus have shown, when you've stirred up a global controversy with your off-colour remarks about other people's orientation, all you need to do is apologise, then apologise to a community leader, then go off to some kind of rehab until the storm quietens down again, or else you'll get fired. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This technique is a pranayama (breath control) exercise that steadies the prana (breath) and thereby quietens the mind. ❋ THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER (2003)

It's not like it quietens down in there at any particular time of day - I think at double speed all day and all night, it's like all the being still and resting and being stuck indoors for the last year and a half is driving my brain mad! ❋ Sheepdip (2001)

It was the death outside that quietened us, as it quietens any man who goes out among those age-old crests and pinnacles, under those glaring stars. ❋ Greenberg, Martin H. (1990)

But he was persuaded to have an operation and then use a hearing aid, which is now the only thing that quietens the tinnitus. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If it all quietens down, hopefully things can get back to normal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And when McGuinness quietens down a little bit, like he does on 'Crowbar', the results are actually fairly acceptable. ❋ Scott Goodacre (2010)