Sentence examples for keep quietly from inspiring English sources

Two women, both workers at the laundry, keep quietly folding T-shirts, sheets and boxer shorts fresh out of the dryers and stacking them in neat piles on a blue counter.

And if it is terrible, say, "I'm learning a lot" - and keep quietly looking for a better one.

I asked Nathan Redbone if the blessings were words best kept quietly in one's heart.

Even after the violence began, Mr. Obama and his aides kept quietly nudging in hopes that Mr. Assad would make the right choice.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency began to search for remote sites in friendly countries around the world where Qaeda operatives could be kept quietly and securely.

Resembling shy people trying to establish emotional contact, Elena Comendador and Nathan Trice kept quietly but intensely approaching and separating in Joy Serio Dunbar's "Silence".

I love that when you've done all you possibly can, and finally walk away, your brain keeps quietly working on it, so that when you come back hours later you can just fill it all right in.

As Mr. Mehldau provided an elusive accompaniment, in which an insistent bass tone kept quietly repeating, Ms. von Otter gave a refined account of a song that can easily turn sentimental.

Yet as the film's box office kept quietly climbing (prior to American Sniper's surge, it was the highest grosser of the nominees), and later, loftier releases failed to register, Fox Searchlight's stealth player held on to its industry affection, even tying with Birdman for the year's highest nomination tally.

You could say that, but as the years went by, the clock kept quietly ticking — through the rage of the punks, the bloat of the eighties, the decades we stopped counting.

A somewhat unusual aspect of Tippr is its army of ten patents, which are kept quietly on display at the bottom of the website (though it isn't clear that these will actually help them beat the competition).