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Example sentences for: silently

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In the first chapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin , Miss Stowe offers a dialogue between Haley and Mr. Shelby, part of which goes, “ `Well,' said Haley, after they had both silently picked their nuts for a season, `what do you say?
One doesn't wish to stand silently by while others merrily exchange misinformation about Albania, the NYPD, and computer viruses.
Once, at a party or fandango, a woman hid him under her great hooped dress, where he crouched silently until the constable gave up his search of the premises.
As regular readers of such publications as Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies ; the Classical Journal ; and the Journal of Biblical Literature are by now well aware, a dispute has long simmered about whether people in ancient times read to themselves silently, as we moderns do, or mostly read aloud.
Five floors of book stacks in a décor of orange and burnt sienna surround a brilliant atrium enclosing greenery, a fountain, and a reflector pool, while a transparent elevator zips silently up and down.