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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

That's a lot of silence.
And as he had it, even the most restless, distractible, testosterone-addled 15-year-old Californian boy only had to spend three days in silence and something in him cooled down and cleared out.
The whole place was absolutely silent, but the silence wasn't an absence of noise.
And there was that same awkward silence from most of my classmates, until sitting next to me, one of my friends, one of the cool kids in class, Steven, leaned across and punched me really hard in the head.
After a kind of long, awkward period of time, Steve broke the silence.
We need to speak up and shatter the silence.
So we need to stop the ignorance, stop the intolerance, stop the stigma, and stop the silence, and we need to take away the taboos, take a look at the truth, and start talking, because the only way we're going to beat a problem that people are battling alone is by standing strong together, by standing strong together.
You will read that Los Zetas is this assortment of sociopaths that terrify the cities that they enter and they silence the press, and this is somewhat true, or mostly true.
It takes up so much of your time and energy, and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
And were you to actually exit the perimeter of the park, the music would fade to silence, and the play button would disappear.
It's got two sounds: a grunt and a silence.
"Did you hear me?" Silence.
And there would be an awkward silence at the table.
"Are you a boy or are you a girl?" Familiar silence, but this time I'm ready, and I am about to go all Women's Studies 101 on this table.
There is shock, followed by a long silence.
But for me, the silence of the universe is shouting, "We're the creatures who got lucky."
Over and over throughout history, people in power have used fear to silence the truth and to silence dissent.
This monastery is playing with the silence and the forest.
And ... and silence.
I can get very excited by saying something really quickly, or I can slow right down to emphasize, and at the end of that, of course, is our old friend silence.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of silence in a talk, is there?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a 1968 speech where he reflects upon the Civil Rights Movement, states, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
Every day, all around us, we see the consequences of silence manifest themselves in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide and war.
I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own, so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything, appeasing ignorance with my silence, unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.
Silence is the residue of fear.
Silence is Rwandan genocide.
Silence is Katrina.
I will not let silence wrap itself around my indecision.
He worked nights at Vauxhall Motors in Luton and demanded total silence throughout the house, so that when we came home from school at 3:30 in the afternoon, we would huddle beside the TV, and rather like safe-crackers, we would twiddle with the volume control knob on the TV so it was almost inaudible.
And if it meant that we would now return to 30 years of silence, my father would say, "If it's so, then it's so."
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