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Collocations for quiet - noun

ADJECTIVE

relative
a period of comparative quiet
sudden
awful, eerie

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VERB + quiet

break (esp. AmE), pierce (esp. AmE), shatter
A machine gun shattered the quiet.

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quiet + VERB

follow
in the sudden quiet that followed the gunshot

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PHRASES

peace and quiet
I'm going home now for a bit of peace and quiet!

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Collocations for quiet - verb

Quiet is used with these nouns as the object:
mind

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Collocations for quiet - adj.

1. with little or no noise; not talking

VERBS

be
become, fall, go, grow
keep, lie, remain, sit, stay
Just sit quiet for a moment, there's a good boy.
keep sb/sth
Keep that dog quiet, will you!

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
all
Suddenly the room went all quiet.
awfully, remarkably, unusually
Everyone went awfully quiet.
absolutely, completely, perfectly
deathly, eerily
The house was eerily quiet.
dangerously
His voice was dangerously quiet as he asked the question.
oddly, strangely, unnaturally
She went back to a strangely quiet house.
surprisingly, uncharacteristically

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PREPOSITION

about
I knew I had to keep quiet about it.

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PHRASES

nice (and) quiet
I was looking forward to a nice quiet afternoon.

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2. without much activity

VERBS

be, look, seem
become
lie, remain, sit
Lie quiet for an hour and you'll feel better.
keep sb/sth
Keep the patient as quiet as possible.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
reasonably (esp. BrE), relatively
enough
Things seemed quiet enough, but it was an uneasy calm.

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Quiet is used with these nouns:
amusement, assurance, celebration, ceremony, charm, chat, chuckle, click, confidence, confines, contemplation, contentment, conversation, corner, countryside, day, desperation, determination, dignity, dinner, diplomacy, drink, enjoyment, evening, existence, groan, knock, lane, laughter, life, man, manner, meditation, menace, moan, moment, morning, murmur, music, neighbourhood, night, passage, place, pleasure, prayer, read, reflection, resignation, retreat, revolution, road, room, satisfaction, seclusion, serenity, sigh, sob, solitude, spell, spot, street, suburb, surroundings, tone, trading, type, village, voice, week, whisper, word

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Collocations for quiet - adv.

Quiet is used with these verbs:
sleep

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