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"Silence" in a Sentence (26 examples)
Silence gives consent.
Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
I take it from your silence that you are not satisfied with my answer.
The chairperson ordered silence.
Silence grows like cancer.
Except for Tom, the family was all watching TV in silence.
More have repented speech than silence.
There followed a long silence.
That evening tea was partaken of in a grim silence.
A blanket of silence fell over everyone when they heard the disappointing announcement.
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When the motor stopped, the silence was almost deafening.
Words like violence break the silence / Come crashing in into my little world
deadly silence
total silence
"You have the right to silence," said the police officer.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
1832, Daniel Webster, "a convention", quoted in The History of the Union, and of the Constitution by Charles Chauncey Burr The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.
Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?
Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.
Silence the critics.
Silence the doubters.
A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.
They, and others through the years, believed Ruby must have acted on his own since there was no logic to the supposition that anyone could trust an uncontrollable, unreliable loudmouth like Ruby to silence Oswald.
Silence! Enough of your insolence!
(in response to laughter from the audience) Silence! I kill you!
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