Children were subdued and silent.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : After the argument he was much more subdued. ,subdued light; wallpaper in subdued greens. ,a subdued landscape.    From Dictionary.com. 

Inflation is likely to "remain subdued for some time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed to Buy $600 Billion of Treasurys] Reference

So things will remain subdued around these parts until then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Ruckley · Kind of Quiet Round Here, Huh?] Reference

There was a sound of parleying in subdued voices at Maybee question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest] Reference

The bedroom furniture stands in subdued angles of gray and darker grays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg] Reference

In WELLINGTON, New Zealand shares were drifting higher in subdued activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sydney Hits 5-Month High] Reference

"Did she never come back?" asked Tiny in subdued tones, for the Doctor had paused again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference

Diocletian, from foreign and domestic war, was again subdued by the successors of Cyrus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

"The country will be very quiet this year with nobody at the Castle," said Mary in subdued tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

Guests speak in subdued tones with their heads close together, glancing furtively from side to side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship] Reference

Be sure to choose small, lightweight lures in subdued colors for most clear or shallow water conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Stream Guide: 50 Ways to Catch Spring Trout] Reference

The congregation sang the verses after him in subdued voices, and repeated the antiphons twice out loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother] Reference

"Respondents 'outlooks suggested sales and construction would remain subdued through year-end," the Fed said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home prices rise more slowly than expected] Reference

The huts, though poor, were clean; no windows, but a certain subdued light makes its way through the leafy canes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference

Through rimless glasses, he looked out at the uniformed crowd and "Sons of Aloha" choir and spoke in subdued but clear sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone] Reference

We sat down on two of the cleanest-looking chairs, and waited whilst a colloquy in subdued voices went on in the room over our heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Molly of Scotland Yard] Reference

Below: A study in subdued femininity -- a tailored oxford cloth shirtwaist dress with a surprise: a hand crocheted butterfly lace collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine] Reference

A review in Moving Pictures magazine called the movie "subdued" - and raved that, just as in their Oscar-nominated movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commonweal Magazine] Reference

Price and wage pressures are likely to be described as subdued again.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

These factors could keep consumer spending subdued, which is consistent with our baseline scenario of a slow recovery in consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

We kind of subdued him and started tying him up really.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2003] Reference

Macquarie blamed "subdued" volumes in its equities business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macquarie Sees Second-Half Profit Drop] Reference

Lies of Israeli propaganda: well, even Marun Ar-Ras is not "subdued".    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday, July 31, 2006] Reference

There was a kind of subdued excitement in the upper front rooms of Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

Instead, we get this kind of subdued, nothingness...people watching eachother.    From Wordnik.com.  [More election night nostalgia.] Reference

His predictions came as NAAMSA released "subdued" sales figures for December 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was then "subdued" by theNew England Revolution soccer team who were also on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

In a nutshell, these were the days of "subdued" celebration, awaiting the "denouement.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday, August 31, 2006] Reference

The headline still says that they "subdued" him, which is obviously false and misleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [VA-SEN: Mike Stark Details Allen Tackle Episode; Faults Media's Soft Coverage Of Race] Reference

The patch is from the days before everything went camouflage 'subdued' in military-speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocket Jones: About Ted Archives] Reference

Mr. Kellermann didn't seem excited, but remained "subdued," says one person who worked for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Fallen Mortgage Titan,] Reference

The ground all around was lit up by a kind of subdued light, and he observed every movement of these beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

And thanks to "tighter credit conditions for some firms," business spending should be "subdued" for the next several months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unspeakable R Word] Reference

The few Iraqis that we spoke to, they greeted this news with a certain kind of subdued reaction, a certain measure of relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2006] Reference

The style is that of the best kind of subdued and sober narrative in which the excitement of the situations is not spent in rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

But it cautioned that the pace of global recovery would be "subdued".    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference

Investment returns will likely remain "subdued" over the next two years, it added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Underwriter : Headline News] Reference

She felt vaguely ill, with a kind of subdued pain, and she was very thirsty and somewhat cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

It was with a kind of subdued sigh that at last she turned from the table and put her papers away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference