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Example sentences for: silences

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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.
When the surrogate makes a sick joke and the guards erupt in laughter, the head guard, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), silences them worriedly.
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.”
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].