go quiet
Frequency: 7.210.0 per million words
To become quiet, often implying a change in mood.
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Examples (10)
- Suddenly the room went all quiet.
- Everyone went awfully quiet after the news.
- The children quickly went quiet when their mother entered.
- He tends to go quiet when he's upset.
- The usually boisterous crowd went completely quiet during the solemn ceremony.
- If you say something controversial, the whole table might go quiet.
- She had been talking animatedly, but then she suddenly went quiet.
- The engine sputtered and then went quiet, leaving them stranded.
- Please go quiet now; the performance is about to begin.
- The forest goes quiet just before a storm hits.