Example sentences for: silence

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

  • my pure sound, my undivided speechtravelling to the edge of this silence.As if to find me.

  • If silence is golden, it is also sometimes the best way to maintain decorum.

  • The Poitras Report, recently released in Montreal, describes an inept organization that routinely broke the law, lacked ethics and professionalism, and embraced a code of silence that thwarted whistle-blowers.

  • She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."

  • Or was a strategic silence really the right response for Heilbrunn after all?


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