Sentence examples for quietly lowering from inspiring English sources

Lately, her campaign has been quietly lowering expectations among key supporters and the media for a blowout victory in Iowa.

Mitt Romney's campaign, which has been quietly lowering expectations and bracing for at least one loss on Tuesday when voters in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri head to the polls, made its reservations public Tuesday morning when it released a memo pointing out that no delegates are at stake in the coming primaries and caucuses.

But the people submitted as the country's best are hardly inspiring confidence either, although Team GB officials deserve a gold medal in crisis management after quietly lowering expectations by reducing the high end of their projected medal haul from 70 to 60 and touting their few successes.

To make the free option less attractive they've been quietly lowering the number of user accounts that can be associated with a free account.

As he took the statue from the presenter, Piper Perabo, the onstage microphone stand quietly lowered into the floor to accommodate the 4-foot-5 actor.

But at one point, dock visitors could see a destroyer flag quietly lowered to half-mast in honor of lost mates on the Cole.

The two of them — Garrett and Erin, played by Justin Long and Drew Barrymore — live in a universe of quietly lowered romantic and professional expectations.

It feels as though Cathal and I had spent that time in the shadow world, as though we had been quietly lowered into the dark, everything familiar missing, and nothing we did or said could change this.

But a new study concludes that the nation's airlines quietly lowered airfares slightly to make the bag fees more palatable to those fliers who would get stuck paying the new charge.

But if you have to use windows, quietly lower a crate or a stool for a high ledge.

If you are using your hands: Slowly and quietly lower your hand until you are close enough to gently grab the hips and back legs of the frogs.