Example sentences for: silently

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

  • Even today, reading paper products is a lonely habit whose practitioners often spend hours or even days at a time silently and obsessively turning pages, immersed in a world of fantasy, isolated from normal society.

  • Also, an editorial condemns Republicans for avoiding the accelerating fight against racial preferences: "It won't do for Republicans to delay the prize of colorblindness, even for a moment, by silently ignoring the battle while it's waged."

  • ( Van Woods, Joann Crowder, and Dana Crist slowly and silently walk across the stage, accompanied by amplified radiator noises.

  • Join the line of viewers and view the body silently and somberly.

  • For confirmation, see this week's fall preview in New York magazine: "Nathan Zuckerman sits silently as another of Roth's blue-eyed Jews is built up and destroyed, this time by a self-involved actress with a Jewish past, a demanding daughter, and a British accent.


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