Example sentences for: silences

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

  • But then, as John F. Szwed makes clear in his new biography, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra , Sun Ra never aspired to conventional lyricism; he wished to re-create the roars and the silences of the cosmos.

  • Binding of free E2F/DP heterodimers to E2F sites generally activates transcription of proteins required for G1 → S transition and DNA synthesis [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], whereas complex formation with pRb or other pocket proteins including p107 and pRb-2/p130 silences transcriptional activities of downstream target genes [ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].

  • 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.

  • Like the musicians themselves, give yourself up to the hypnotic effect of the notes, rhythms, and melodies, or even the silences.

  • 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.”


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