Sentence examples for somehow subdued from inspiring English sources

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And the crowd, while noisy at times, nevertheless seemed somehow subdued.

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England are lucky indeed to have their boy wonder; a shell-shocked Australia must somehow subdue a world-class talent who is giving both club and country an extra dimension.

And this is why his novels, stories and articles so often defied closure and grew and grew and grew, sprouting tendrils and digressions and asides — because in almost everything Wallace wrote, including "The Pale King," he aimed to use words to lasso and somehow subdue the staggering, multifarious, cacophonous predicament that is modern American life.

The two of them suddenly realized that Gleason would have to put down the gun and somehow subdue Stregg, and their eyes got very wide.

They think dictators can rule forever and that the dreams and spirit we saw in 2011 can somehow be permanently subdued – if everyone simply accepted corruption and despotism, everything would be fine.

Traditionally, the word "dads" has fallen into the same general area as "chums," "pals," "buddies" and "hubbies": an affectionate yet generic term, which, while suffused with unambiguous good will, seems imbued with a chiding, satiric undertone, suggesting that the person to whom it is applied has somehow been domesticated, subdued, defanged.

On the flip side, there are numerous documented cases of white mass shooters, who are armed and have criminal intent, who are somehow able to be subdued, apprehended by law enforcement and stand trial.

Somehow, some way, the Yankees subdued the Twins, 13-10.

Somehow, the brilliant American soprano Cyndia Sieden subdued this homicidal part, and had the audience laughing in amazement.

It was an odd moment, as though the narrative had somehow forked and we were witnessing two possible outcomes, the intruders subdued at one end of the room, our friend strangled at the other.

If now this, somehow irrational, scare of bovine meat inexorably transmitting devastating brain disorders is largely subdued, several prion-related issues are still unsolved, precluding the design of therapeutic approaches that could slow, if not halt, prion diseases.

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