Example sentences for: silence

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

  • Compare her turn as a government agent in Rush (1991) to Jodie Foster's the same year in The Silence of the Lambs . Foster revealed her character's vulnerability by indirection--by how hard the young woman labored to project strength.

  • Visitors maintain a respectful silence and are quickly ushered through to a gift shop at the back.

  • 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.

  • Complete electrical silence occurs with profound hypothermia (7-20°c) [ 22].

  • 4) Assimilation : Second- and third-generation Sicilians, who now control the Mafia, place less emphasis on the omertà --the code of silence that precludes snitching.


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