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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

There was silence; they were all breathing with the vague discomfort of this closed-in horizon.
The children were asleep, she was quite willing; he was certain that she was waiting for him, stifling, and that she would close her arms round him in silence with clenched teeth.
Then, in the midst of the angry silence, he added gently:"On the whole, I shouldn't say no if it amuses you; it ruins the one side and kills the other, and that is always so much cleared away.
Their lamps danced at their wrists in the deathly silence which had fallen; they rushed in single file along the passages with bent backs, as though they were galloping on all fours; and without slowing this gallop they asked each other questions and threw brief replies.
There was deep silence.
In silence they all looked at one another, and shuddered as they felt the coldness of death pass in the darkness.
he asked of Dansaert, who was standing in silence before the corpse which was being wrapped up in a sheet.
When the door reopened there was silence in the group.
It was now quite night, the exhausted miners were at last eating their soup, and the settlement had fallen into a melancholy silence, only disturbed by these loud outcries.
They all sat down again and remained at table in silence, no longer daring to move, listening from afar with intent ears jarred by these coarse male voices.
Then, after a long silence, she replied:"You're right; go.
There was a period of silence.
This sentence, so moderate in form, was pronounced in a low voice, but with such conviction, tremulous in its menace, that a deep silence followed.
"Reflect before committing any follies," he repeated, disturbed at their silence.
And they all left in the midst of this threatening silence.
At the Voreux a heavy silence hung over the pit-mouth.
She made a vague gesture, and there was silence, a silence which was painful and heavy with unspoken things.
In spite of his comrade's silence, conquered even by that silence, he felt himself gradually absorbed.
Three or four friends tried to applaud him, but this accentuated the cold silence of the majority, and the gradually rising disapprobation which greeted his phrases.
Two-thirds of the audience had risen indignantly, trying to silence him, since he insulted them by treating them like children unable to act for themselves.
With a gesture he enforced silence.
Suddenly the little door opened, and Widow Désir filled it with her belly and breast, shouting in a thundering voice:"For God's sake, silence!
Lénore and Henri, astonished that they had nothing to eat, began to moan; while old Bonnemort, in silence, philosophically rolled his tongue in his mouth to deceive his hunger.
As she knocked there was sudden silence.
Vague sounds were dying out, stifled tears, lost oaths; and in the silence which slowly grew heavier one could hear the sleep of hunger coming on, the collapse of bodies thrown across beds in the nightmares of empty bellies.
They asked her no questions, and the silence continued.
No one can silence us any more than they can silence the birds and beasts!"
A deep silence fell from the starry sky.
Already Rasseneur had replaced him, and with a gesture demanded silence.
There was deep silence, and they listened to this old man, who was like a pale spectre beneath the moon, and as he narrated things without any immediate relation with the discussion--long histories which no one could understand--the impression was increased.
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