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Example sentences for: silences

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

His long awkward silences are punctuated only by unsettling smiles and chilling anecdotes.
Toru's conversations with the lieutenant yield an enduring image: a dry well, whose dark silences facilitate thought and force people to confront their demons.
When the surrogate makes a sick joke and the guards erupt in laughter, the head guard, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), silences them worriedly.
García Lorca recalls a Spanish girl street singer and dancer transforming “the horrendous” Italian song, O Marí into an artistic gem by virtue of her “rhythms, silences and intention.”
Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.