Sentence examples for when things are quiet from inspiring English sources

When things are quiet I sketch and do small watercolors.

"The trouble the Palestinians are facing is that, when things are quiet, no one cares.

Sit down with your boss when things are quiet and say: "I've noticed that my schedule is different from yours.

The newspapers have raised such a fuss that the Youth Board's got its workers running around in circles, and it hasn't enough of them to do the job anyway, even when things are quiet.

When things are quiet -- most of the time, they say -- they spend time together at the firehouses, cooking, sprucing up the rigs and the houses, watching movies and shooting pool.

The trauma impacts upon cognition and they tend to employ short-term coping strategies, such as fleeing when violence erupts, only to return during a hiatus when things are quiet and he has said sorry.5 Frequently men who batter their partners justify the violence by saying she provoked them and should have realised they would become angry or jealous.

"A large part of their waking day is when things are quieting down".

That time can then be reclaimed when things are quieter, such as over Christmas and during summer.

As a director, I expect to work more than a 35-hour week but, equally, if there's weekend work attached to a project or I've put in particularly long hours over a sustained period, I will take time off when things are quieter.

If you need to work instead of doing family things in order to meet a deadline, try and pay that time back when things are quieter, this way the family understands that work is important, but also that they are important too!

I visited Woody's twice in early September, on a Sunday during the Labor Day lull and on a Saturday after the back-to-school frenzy; service was personable and attentive when things were quiet, more clipped and evasive the second time around.