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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:

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.
Like the musicians themselves, give yourself up to the hypnotic effect of the notes, rhythms, and melodies, or even the silences.
His long awkward silences are punctuated only by unsettling smiles and chilling anecdotes.
Never one to confess voluntarily, Zeus then silences Io by turning her into a cow.