Silence in example sentence

When the SARS epidemic broke out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the magnitude of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.

More example sentences with word silence

These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence.

It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."

Just silence, that's it.

There's silence for three minutes or so as she reads.

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