They tried to quell the rumor before too many people heard it.    From LearnThat.org. 

quell my hunger.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

November, Sony Music issued a track called quell rumours that some of Jackson's vocals on the album were "fake".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Is the expectation is he is trying to kind of quell that emotional outburst?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2008] Reference

I think actually he reached out very aggressively basically to the right during the campaign, kind of quell these fears that he was soft on Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2008] Reference

A mere peace agreement won't quell these passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Of A Dream] Reference

The decision to act was, in part, an effort to quell hysteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sky Is Falling] Reference

Kanemaru had fervently hoped his resignation would quell the brewing storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Kingmaker on the Line] Reference

Local officials recently declared sovereignty to quell separatist pressures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanting Out Of Russia] Reference

Results released last week from five trials did little to quell those concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chemo In Question] Reference

Or one that would quell the bombast of the traditional Monday Night Football opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Athletes As Heroes? Don't Think So] Reference

In classic French style, Seguin fanned the uproar while ostensibly trying to quell it.    From Wordnik.com.  [France Blows It Again] Reference

It is with some difficultly that I attempt to quell my enthusiasm in composing this letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Day Of Our Relief’] Reference

The escape is a serious setback to Beijing's attempts to quell separatist sentiment in Tibet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaving Home] Reference

Worse, even the Asians are beginning to wonder how ready or able Washington is to quell them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Alarms For Uncle Sam] Reference

In test-tube experiments, vitamin E helps quell the toxic free radicals associated with A-beta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alzheimer's Unlocking The Mystery] Reference

America's recent corporate-accounting scandals haven't helped to quell foreign investors 'fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Farewell To Foreigners] Reference

It took thousands of security troops to quell unrest in Armenia last month after 24 people died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Summer For Moscow] Reference

We can't quell the suspicion that their crimes reveal something meaningful about our society, about us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rage Of The American Male] Reference

Iraqis say the only way to quell the insurgency is for U.S. forces to withdraw immediately from the cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Job Ahead: 'They're Not Going Back'] Reference

In 1980, Jimmy Carter adopted credit controls in an effort to quell inflation without triggering a recession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware Of Election-Year Economics] Reference

Yeltsin's insistence that he would not resign didn't quell the speculation that eventually he may do just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Roulette] Reference

A peace agreement will not quell but may stimulate the intransigence of Hamas and other radical groups or states.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Can Do] Reference

Saddam's generals, who have been shuttling divisions north and south to quell the rebellion, are running out of gasoline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Rude Surprise] Reference

The Federal Reserve lurched between loose policies (which raised inflation) and tight policies (which tried to quell it).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Specter Of Deflation] Reference

A man was killed recently when tempers flared in a maize queue, and police sometimes have to be called in to quell disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting For Survival] Reference

The company was trying to quell a widening -- and widely exaggerated -- health scare in Europe over the safety of its soft drinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Hard To Swallow] Reference

The freeze has been deepest in sectors deemed vulnerable to Beijing's ongoing effort to tighten the money supply and quell inflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Leap Downward] Reference

In cognitive behavioral therapy, a trained therapist helps patients quell that amplification by reorienting negative ways of thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digestion: Soothing A Sensitive Gut] Reference

The only real authority the Soviet president still wielded, it seemed, was the power to dispatch the military to quell separatist unrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heading For A Crackup?] Reference

Are there things the United States can do, literallyandphysically, to help the Mexicans quell this inside Mexico, or do they not want that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mexican Problem] Reference