Sentence examples for quell her from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Smith couldn't quell her entrepreneurial spirit.

She's expressed some doubts about employing an underage dancer to quell her stage fright.

As a toddler, Nikki once licked peanut butter from the glass shards of a broken jar to quell her hunger.

She gamely buys into the mid-70s zeitgeist – stringless sex, braless blouses – but never manages to quell her natural anxiety.

"They have metal detectors for people who lay too low," Claire, unable to quell her competitive impulses, tells her father.

Given her own way, she was fully enthusiastic about stabbing as many people as she could, so I had to quell her passion a bit".

"It's sad," said Mrs. Wynns, 54 and dainty, who quells her nostalgia by filling her home with hundreds of mermaid figurines and passes out business cards with a tiny portrait of her mermaid self, circa 1968.

In such cases, Allison's self-deceptive belief that her daughter is not having learning difficulties, fulfills her desire, quells her fear or reduces her anxiety, and it is this function (not an intention) that explains why her belief formation process is bias.

My grandmother coped with her chaotic inner life by regimenting her outer life, quelled her anxiety by staying busy -- vacuuming, dusting, scrubbing, organizing.

Highsmith did her best to quell speculation about her private life and didn't commit herself publicly on the subject - so that for much of Beautiful Shadow her own voice is missing.

In the best story, ravaging ovarian cancer fails to soften a wife's hostility to her husband or to quell his compulsion to flee.