Stilled
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The populist backlash against globalization in the West will not be
stilled
by Macron’s victory, and could still lead to protectionism, trade wars, and sharp restrictions to migration.
More example sentences with word stilled
However, your hunger for blood and controversy will definitely not be
stilled.
There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even
stilled
the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a wood-pecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.
The landlord alone insisted upon it that they must punish the insolence of this madman, who at every turn raised a disturbance in the inn; but at length the uproar was
stilled
for the present; the pack-saddle remained a caparison till the day of judgment, and the basin a helmet and the inn a castle in Don Quixote's imagination.
It was a heart-breaking story, and the girls, making the offerings begged of them in strange accents, went from it
stilled
and awed to the measure of their natures, and talked it over in the corridors in whispers until a nervous giggle broke the tension, and they began chattering again.
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