Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

So this went back and forth in total silence a few more times until we walked away.

He retreated into silence.

And there is this stunning silence.

And he orders a pint, and they sit in silence for a while.

Maybe a single, superintelligent civilization has indeed taken over the galaxy and has imposed strict radio silence because it's paranoid of any potential competitors.

If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

Can I request a moment of absolute silence?

It's just a design of pitches and silence and time.

So please join me for a minute of silence.

Still, there's no constant emotion, except for flashes of pain, grief and anger triggered by the news, or an insensitive comment, or just silence.

I was deeply disappointed by this because, as I saw it, there would be nothing that any of my peers or I could do to silence someone who agreed with him in the office environment of our future employers.

My story started in England with a clean slate and the silence of immigrant parents.

'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch, where I sat in silence for several moments.

But he had been so afraid of conflict, until finally he became more afraid of the silence.

But when we dare to break that silence, or when we dare to see, and we create conflict, we enable ourselves and the people around us to do our very best thinking.

And complete silence fell.

And we sat in silence for that brief moment, and he said to me, "You're really talented."

So I broke the silence.

I was able to end my own crazy love story by breaking the silence.

I'm still breaking the silence today.

Abuse thrives only in silence.

There's silence.

Just like with heterosexism, if you're a heterosexual person and you yourself don't enact harassing or abusive behaviors towards people of varying sexual orientations, if you don't say something in the face of other heterosexual people doing that, then, in a sense, isn't your silence a form of consent and complicity?

Now, among the many great things that Martin Luther King said in his short life was, "In the end, what will hurt the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."

In the end, what will hurt the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

There's been an awful lot of silence in male culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children, hasn't there?

There's been an awful lot of silence.

And all I'm saying is that we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.

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