Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

I listened for silence as anxiously as one might listen for noise, trying to be sure that the Lord hadn't pulled a fast one on me and decided to come back early.

First, we'll dose the cancer cell with siRNA, the gene blocker, and silence those survival genes, and then we'll whop it with a chemo drug.

It acts for hours, giving enough time to silence and block those survival genes.

Resist those who silence us, those who say that a prostitute is either too victimized, too damaged to know what's best for herself, or else too privileged and too removed from real hardship, not representative of the millions of voiceless victims.

Our nation will begin to heal from over a century of silence.

While Beckett had a lifelong love of language, he also made space for silence by incorporating gaps, pauses and moments of emptiness into his work.

After some awkward silence, he goes, "Have you forgotten your name?"

For it became clear at this point that in order to make the biggest kind of noise, we first needed the biggest kind of silence.

I went up to cedar, and I ran the Geiger counter over its leaves, and as I suspected, silence.

And yet, this began for me months of pain and depression and anger and confusion and silence.

Two things: release the shame and end the silence.

The day I ended my silence, I freed myself from shame.

It's called "50 Shades of Silence."

They didn't preemptively silence themselves.

Silence your internal critic.

Not only that, but thousands of men and women suffer every day from sexual abuse, often in silence, yet it's still a problem we don't give the same airtime to as other issues.

But we dance with a consciousness that this is a historic form that can produce silence and produce invisibility across the spectrum of identity that we enjoy today.

And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious moment of silence in the room for this fallen robot.

he'd say you can't hear it because you don't know what it's like to not hear it; you don't know what true silence is.

A few moments of silence is going to make us pay attention.

So silence preceding verbal communication can create a lot of tension.

So in a yin-yang way, silence needs loudness and loudness needs silence for either of them to have any effect.

But what does silence mean?

Silence can place us inside the head of a character or provoke thought.

But apart from having one meaning, silence becomes a blank canvas upon which the viewer is invited to the paint their own thoughts.

But I want to make it clear: there is no such thing as silence.

And even in today's Dolby world, there's not really any moment of silence if you listen around you.

Now, since there's no such thing as silence, what do filmmakers and sound designers use?

Again: silence.

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