"Police were sent to quell the riot."
To quell bleeding, cauterize the wound.
The dictator is trying to quell the rebellion.
The police used pepper spray to quell the riot.
The king sent his army to quell the rebellion in the province.
The police were called out to quell the riot.
Quell is a verb or describing word. When someone quells something, the are suppressing or silencing something. Used in a sentence: "The wary woman tried everything to quell the cranky baby, but nothing was working."
The police had been called in to quell a minor disturbance.
The police were able to quell the riot.
Quell your impulse to tie your sister's pigtails to the bedpost.
When water did n't quell the rushes, she drank more and more.
Police arrived in force to quell the riot set off by rabid soccer fans.
The principal held a meeting in order to quell the rumors about the school closing. A few potato chips will do nothing to quell my hunger. King George could do nothing to quell the colonist's uprising.