"quietly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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verbo + quietly
Kolokacji: 285
say quietly • sit quietly • speak quietly • stand quietly • move quietly • ask quietly • talk quietly • live quietly • slip quietly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 40
(15) lie, lap
Kolokacji: 2
(19) sleep, snore
Kolokacji: 2
(21) eat, spend, burn
Kolokacji: 3
(24) read, study, venture
Kolokacji: 3
(26) support, back, approve
Kolokacji: 3
(29) shelve, cancel
Kolokacji: 2
  • The bill was quietly shelved during the summer of 2012.
  • But with 217 members, the resignations would have meant little, so she quietly shelved the plan.
  • The White House quietly shelved the proposal before it was made public.
  • It has quietly shelved proposals for a new stimulus program that would not have required additional spending.
  • If the economy is preforming well by then I have no doubt those regulations will be quietly shelved.
  • The commission quietly shelved the plan, a decision that set a pattern for the work that followed.
  • He thought better of submitting his songs to peer review and quietly shelved them.
  • Yet when government rules or subsidies provide an opportunity to make some money, that free-market ideology is quietly shelved.
  • The project was quietly shelved in the early 1980's in the face of public opposition and changing priorities.
  • So either it'll be released next year... or it's being quietly shelved?
2. quietly cancelled = cicho odwołać quietly cancelled
(30) pray, lobby, insist, assert
Kolokacji: 4
(31) help, encourage, ease, lead
Kolokacji: 4
(32) stare, gaze
Kolokacji: 2
(33) sip, kill, drink
Kolokacji: 3
(34) file, recruit
Kolokacji: 2
(35) acknowledge, confess, concede
Kolokacji: 3
(37) fume, smoke
Kolokacji: 2
(38) chew, munch
Kolokacji: 2
(39) graze, dine
Kolokacji: 2
(40) idle, trot
Kolokacji: 2
quietly + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 10
quietly confident • quietly elegant • quietly powerful • quietly pleased • quietly intense • ...

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