Example sentences for: mute

How can you use “mute” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This all means that "parents have returned to adolescent upbringing in ways that have rendered their children's normally destructive impulses mute."

  • Was this a deliberate attempt to mute the criticism of his temper, or was he going after the Forbes alien vote?

  • Whether or not he can "solve problems" as the chyron suggests he will, and despite the fact that Bio is mute on his plans, the leaders and cops who surround him in these scenes provide visual endorsements, suggesting that he stands for progress.

  • “That is a mute point now, of course, with Holyfield's victory over Douglas.”

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."


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