Sentence examples for had been quashed from inspiring English sources
There was peace with France and the Jacobite threat had been quashed at Culloden.
The show had been quashed by censors, presumably for its mockery of a hallowed state-molded institution.
The last time we met, it was two weeks after the Iranian election, and the opposition protests had been quashed.
The reporter, Michael Forsythe, was the co-writer of an article that some Bloomberg employees said had been quashed for political reasons, an assertion that Bloomberg News denied.
Even before the political leaders arrived at the presidential palace, the prospect of the discussions producing a successful outcome had been quashed by the small Democratic Left party.
The biggest stemmed from the revelation that Jimmy Savile, a recently deceased BBC presenter, was a prolific paedophile and, what is more, that a BBC exposé of his alleged crimes had been quashed.
I'd finally accepted something I had been quashing, that not having a child – or at least trying – would be something I would almost certainly regret.
When he suddenly announced in February that in fact the project was going to be $1.4 billion over budget, the critics he had been quashing rose up with renewed energy against him.
What nationalist fervor Puerto Rico had was quashed, and the colony stayed bound to US-controlled capitalism as a "free associated state".
