Quell in a sentence

After the vote, the Central African nation's Communications Minister, Rodrigue Mboumba Bissawou, announced a nightly curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., and said internet access was being restricted indefinitely to quell disinformation and calls for violence.

Andrews’ lack of inspiration has done little to quell the collective imagination, with Nine News drawing up plans for a masked Andrews, a hard-hat Andrews and a North Face jacket Andrews.

As with my girlfriend many years ago, the conversations may just be an opportunity to quell non-existent fears.

Attempting to quell the discontent, Boluarte — who served as Castillo’s vice-president and hails from the same leftwing party — has pledged to bring elections forward from 2026 to April 2024.

Brown comes again but Bailey is there this time to quell the chance.

Days of Our Lives spoilers say Kayla will return from the dead down the road, so that could certainly help quell Stephanie’s pain and anger.

Even an official Chinese scientific delegation that visited Memphis and announced that Le Le was not mistreated and died of a heart condition failed to quell the outrage.

Fed officials, led by Chair Jerome Powell, are considering whether their benchmark rate is high enough to quell inflation or if they need to impose another increase in coming months.

He fell one short of the 150 votes -- two thirds of his caucus -- he had promised to deliver in the lower chamber as he fought to quell a right-wing rebellion, and needed Democratic help to advance the bill to the Senate.

I am doing my bit to quell any stereotypes about it," she said.

I believe these tactics are designed more to quell dissent and to dissuade working people from exercising their rights to protest and demonstrate than they are to legitimately uphold the law.

In addition to being a business boon for both Twitter and Tucker, the partnership should also quell the Woke Left’s incessant charges of against Carlson, since Musk is, after all, African-American.

In an effort to quell the violence in a territory known as the Bajo Cauca, Colombia’s Minister of Defense Iván Velásquez announced that an additional 10,000 troops would be dispatched to this ore-rich region.

In the face of a growing crisis that hundreds of arrests and massive police deployments have failed to quell, Macron held off on declaring a state of emergency, an option that was used in similar circumstances in 2005.

Katniss's defiance and escape from the Quarter Quell show the rebellion's growing support, even within the Capitol.

Last month, Princess Charlene attempted to quell persistent rumours that her marriage to Prince Albert is on the rocks, describing them as 'exhausting'.

Marcos Sr. declared martial law over the country on September 21, 1972 to supposedly quell lawlessness in the country.

Mortgage rates have jumped in recent months amid a string of Bank of England base rate rises as it moves to quell inflation, although there have been some signs of fixed rates settling down in recent weeks.

Moscow spent decades attempting to quell an Islamic insurgency there, where more than 90% of the population identify as Muslim, and still struggles to find a solution for poverty and high unemployment.

Other parties have attempted to quell the tensions, with U.S. President Joe Biden declaring there was 'no clear evidence' that Iran helped Hamas plan its October attacks, despite being the Palestinian group's main financial backer.