Example sentences for: silence

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

  • Though the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 noted and deplored the silence about women in the Declaration of Independence and though nonfeminists have worked toward removing sexism from English, most current activity stems from the women's movement that began in the 1960s.

  • So yesterday's silence from Gingrich, Lott, et al.

  • Unlike most products, which may be slipped across a counter (over or under) in silence, drinks are usually ordered out loud.

  • In general, boycotts against works of the imagination as the primary focus of a political organization are suspect, whether it's the Catholic League against Dogma or the Brooklyn Museum, NOW against Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho , or gay activists against Silence of the Lambs , which is not to say that I don't think these things should be as vigorously debated as anyone cares to debate them, and in some cases more vigorously than that.

  • And indeed, USAT refers to the leading economies' "months of silence" about the crisis.


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