Get to know Quietening better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like calming or lulling.
Quietening meaning
present participle and gerund of quieten
Using Quietening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of quieten
- Useful related words include: calming, lulling, unalarming.
Context around Quietening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 16.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quietening
- In this selection, "quietening" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 16.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include bit of quietening and to be quietening. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quietening" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quietening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The horse hadn’t been ridden for months and needed a bit of quietening. (14 words)
The clashes between left and right that had dominated politics during the 70s and 80s seemed to be quietening. (19 words)
The clashes between left and right that had dominated politics during the 70s and 80s seemed to be quietening. (19 words)
The horse hadn’t been ridden for months and needed a bit of quietening. (14 words)
Example sentences (2)
The horse hadn’t been ridden for months and needed a bit of quietening.
The clashes between left and right that had dominated politics during the 70s and 80s seemed to be quietening.