"quietly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With no struggle for financial security ahead, he'd been sinking quietly into a state ofbemused complacency.
- His eyelids sank quietly often as he walked in happy warmth.
- If they had already capsized, he reasoned, the Wave would have passed on by this time, leaving them quietly sinking in its lee.
- The cayman sank quietly into the mud at the bottom, where it felt safely concealed.
- This shared relaxation floated gently past these limits, creating a sensation like sinking quietly into a deep hole.
- The house's southeast corner sloped downward, and the front porch was quietly sinking into the earth.
- Susan Paladino sank quietly into the dark waves of the sea.
- Enid let herself sink quietly into the high-backed chair.
- It hung suspended above the lake for an instant, then sank quietly beneath the water and was gone.
- On the whole, though, this quirky and startling result sank quietly into the scientific literature.
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