Sentence examples for dropping quietly from inspiring English sources

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A long shot of a tiny house nestled next to a stream and woods suggests a peaceful picture, a tranquillity that is almost immediately upended by the sight of filthy, bedraggled, armed men emerging from the forest, dropping quietly out of the thicket in small dribbles like some kind of newly awakened primordial force.

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The first shoe dropped quietly.

Those falling cadences, the way his sentences drop quietly into ideas left hanging, things unsaid, are as haunting as they are disturbing.

It is inspiring to know that we have with us a man of this gauge - one who, as he drops quietly into the waters of the Channel, wears what he wants on his feet.

But on closer inspection, it has turned out the computer firm received no help from the government in Paris, and the matter has been allowed to drop quietly.Moreover, aside from SNCM, the government is pressing ahead with its privatisation plans.

But while the Electoral Commission tries to convince people to act upon their varying levels of disdain for David Cameron and Ed Miliband, a new form of registration may have caused almost a million people to drop quietly off the electoral register.

Both men seem constitutionally unable to let a feud drop quietly, to resist having the last word in a public argument, or to feel that they have ever been properly understood by the press.

So let us all drop quietly to the mat and work on bolstering our own iron wills.

It was dropped -- quietly, like everything else about the Frick -- before the museum began an endowment campaign in 1990.

He began by quietly dropping a bombshell.

The interim government has ignored calls by its allies for similar investigations before, quietly dropping an inquiry into the controversial killing of its top military official in July.

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