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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

That review was followed by dead silence both in print and in conversation concerning the book, and Koznyshev saw that his six years' work, carried out with so much devotion and labour, was entirely thrown away.
There was silence.
At the bottom of the pit bank there was silence; the landers no longer shook the stages with a prolonged vibration.
The workman, after having emptied the trains, had seated himself on the earth, glad of the accident, maintaining his savage silence; he had simply lifted his large, dim eyes to the carman, as if annoyed by so many words.
"Haven't the Piolaine people told you to go and see them?" asked the father, after a period of silence.
There was silence again.
The cage mounted from the void with the same voracious silence.
He felt very cold, and preserved a nervous silence which made Zacharie and Levaque grin; for both of them disapproved of the hiring of this unknown man, especially Levaque, who was offended that he had not been consulted.
There was silence, and they got to work.
And in the middle of the heavy silence and crushing weight of the strata one could hear, by placing one's ear to the rock, the movement of these human insects at work, from the flight of the cable which moved the cage up and down, to the biting of the tools cutting out the coal at the end of the stalls.
Catherine looked at him a moment in silence.
He got into one tram, and the head captain into another, the signal was sounded five times, ringing for the butcher s meat, as they said for the masters; and the cage flew up in the air in the midst of a gloomy silence.
One other customer, a damp and besmeared miner, was seated before the table, drinking his beer in silence, with an air of deep meditation.
The father imposed silence with a gesture.
And silence again fell until seven o'clock.
The housemaid did not reappear, and there was a moment of embarrassed silence.
"You only have these two?" asked Madame Grégoire, in order to break the silence.
There was silence again, and one only heard the burning coal as it gave out a jet of gas.
And in the silence they heard upstairs the grandfather's snoring, the same rhythmic snoring which had not stopped for a moment.
Then, when his daughter-in-law said to him that one cannot always do what one likes, he ate his potatoes in silence.
Father Bonnemort was smoking his pipe in silence.
The cries redoubled, and there was a terrible push which shook the wall, followed by complete silence.
He himself was hungry in silence; he did not recognize the usual taste of Maigrat's provisions; this must come from somewhere else; however, he put no question to his wife.
And there was silence again.
The old man, whose disappearing back he watched, recalled his arrival in the morning, and the flood of words which the piercing wind had dragged from his silence.
The girl, certainly a virgin, was struggling and resisting with low whispered supplications, while the lad in silence was pushing her towards the darkness of a corner of the shed, still upright, under which there were piles of old mouldy rope.
They separated in silence with buzzing ears, as if their heads had swollen with the grave questions they had been discussing.
Mouque and Bonnemort, with their faces towards the ground, in the midst of the tumult preserved a silence of profound approbation.
He became serious and smoked in silence.
At the same moment Father Bonnemort and old Mouque also left Montsou, walking in the same somnambulistic manner, preserving the obstinate silence of their recollections.
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