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How to use quelled in a sentence

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I have quelled the ferocious beasties that are computer viruses, all without hurting those that should be maimed horribly.
If nothing else, it might have quelled the widespread suspicion that the incident had been covered up.
By the time Ted Leo took the stage with a drummer and a bassist as the accompanying Pharmacists all doubt was quelled.
Had government come out and explained the deal from day one, I am certain that this firestorm would have been quelled long ago.
The car can be driven on the throttle quite easily, with both understeer and oversteer smoothly quelled by your right foot.
A naval and a land attack was made upon the Islesmen, and they for a time were quelled.
Verbena quelled him in mid-grumble with a patient, long-suffering gaze, like a mother enduring a weary child's temper tantrum.
She would not be calmed, she would not be quelled, she would not be made to silence and rest.
For a while it seemed that the government had quelled radical groups, but this has only lulled us into a sense of false security.
Conductors were popular, and deservedly so, because they assisted elderly people, sorted out fares and quelled bad behaviour.
Fear, whether it is quelled or stimulated, provides the capacity to both control and manipulate a variety of social and political discourses.
He disposed of his rival claimants, and quelled various rebellions that the succession crisis had spawned.
Initially as surprised as everyone else, the Mexican army soon recovered and violently quelled the rebellion.
This is not quelled by maturity, or a mere 12-year spell at Her Majesty's pleasure.
An East Lancashire computer firm has quelled rumours 50 jobs will be cut when it restructures its sales staff.
Paulinus quelled the revolt with ruthless efficiency but his methods were frowned upon by the new procurator, Classicianus.
They quelled the Red River rebellion and also helped avert a Fenian Raid on Manitoba.
The riot is quelled by the arrival of the Duke of Verona, who decrees the death penalty if either side disturbs the peace again.
November's dramatic government intervention may have quelled fears that the bank would go under.
In cold logic, she had quelled her instinctual need for company.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The advance guard had suffered, but their fire had quelled that of the enemy.
It sounds rhetorical to say so, but it was not quelled in peasoup or tisane.
Lunatics, she knew, could be quelled by the calm gaze of the sane human eye.
There was an air of quiet, unmerited suffering about her, which quelled him.
Juste's air was slightly mocking, and words of not overdelicate banter rose to his lips, to be instantly quelled by La Boulaye.
We have saved you from some roistering knaves, and shall give you a pleasant refuge until the trouble be quelled.
At times there were manifestations of rowdiness, but they were speedily and readily quelled.
The Syrian revolt was quelled, and Urfa surrendered to the sultan.
The seditions at teruel were only quelled in 1485, by extreme severity.
There he kept it with his breath subdued, and the alarum severely quelled.
Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.
His own agitation was quelled by a certain awe that comes over us in the presence of a great anguish, for the anguish he must inflict on Adam was already present to him.
Even in this condition, his merry spirit was not entirely quelled, and he summoned up a feeble laugh at the alarm and anxiety of those who came to his relief.
The mutiny was quelled, and five minutes more saw the brothers being carried to the hospital, and the mutineers, marshalled by the gang-bosses, on the way to the fields.
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