Example sentences for: silent

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

  • Before long, a sea of psychedelic ads flooded the nation, urging consumers to "break away from the silent majority" or even to "impeach Miss America."

  • The WP coverage is silent about these wrinkles as well.

  • Most of the other candidates have tried to tread the middle ground: The Bush and Gore camps have said they will stay silent on the issue because it is a legal matter and up to the courts, not the executive branch.

  • This test relies on the assumption that functionally constrained protein-coding sequences should exhibit significantly lower rates of evolution in amino-acid-encoding nucleotide sites (typically first and second positions in a codon) relative to silent sites (typically third positions in a codon).

  • Quantitatively, this leads to the prediction that the ratio of the average rate of amino-acid substitution per site (K a ) relative to the average rate of silent substitution per site (K s ) for functionally constrained coding sequences should be significantly less than 1 [ 21].


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