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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

Martin Luther King once said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
We're seeing more the urge to keep people off campus, silence them, keep them away.
The live audience was asked to applaud ASL-style, in silence.]
Silence can also be rather uncomfortable.
And I also realized that my silence, our silence, allows abuse like this to continue.
There was silence on the line.
My self-worth was buried under a soul-crushing load of silence that isolated me from everyone that I cared about, and I was consumed with misplaced hatred and anger that I took out on myself.
As it turns out, he, too, had been imprisoned by silence.
Breaking your silence is never easy, and depending on where you are in the world, it can even be deadly to speak out about rape.
We knew we were in a battle for our lives because silence equaled death, but we changed, and we made things happen.
In Mumbai, in India, those who follow the Parsi religion put their dead in structures called "Towers of Silence."
And this is where the magic happened, in that classroom when all the students started taking their seats and I began to speak, despite this renewed feeling that I didn't deserve to be there, that I didn't belong there or have a right to break the silence.
And one can understand why the company would wish to silence a squeaky wheel.
What I want to point the finger at is the legal and regulatory system, a system in which there are networks of agreements just like this one which serve to silence people and seal off data points from public health experts and epidemiologists, a system in which regulators will even refrain from issuing a violation notice in the event of pollution if the landowner and the gas company agree to settle.
They grow up to be women who silence themselves.
We need to stop suffering in silence.
And so civility talk in the 17th century becomes a really effective way for members of the religious establishment to silence, suppress, exclude dissenters outside of the established church, especially when they spoke out against the status quo.
It's used to silence civil rights protesters in the 20th century.
This film was called, "Le Monde Du Silence," or, "The Silent World."
So he passed away in silence.
When they censored me when I was 24, I learned that neutrality, fear and silence often make you an accomplice in crime, abuse and injustice.
I believe that's what it takes to help people who may be suffering in silence to know that they are not alone and to know that with help, they can heal.
Let's start with silence.
Silence is one of the most precious conditions for humans, because it allows us to feel the depth of our presence.
For the first time, we could associate the concept of cars with the experience of silence.
Cars can finally be quiet: peace in the streets, a silent revolution in the cities. (Hum) But silence can also be a problem.
Everyone can have a corner office, their windows, the food they want to eat, you can choose when there's music and when there's silence.
We need to break the silence around the condition of our planet; move beyond manufactured debates about climate science; share solutions; speak truth with a broken-open heart; teach that to address climate change, we must make gender equity a reality.
The Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran used to say, "I learned silence from the talkative and tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind."
Luckily, there are things we can do right now, both individually and as a society, to better protect our health and give us more of the benefits of the sounds of silence.
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