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Silent in sentence

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And so, robin eggs failed to hatch, songbirds died en masse, towns fell silent.
And I hung up the phone, and I put my face in my hands, and I screamed this silent scream.
But it's completely safe, completely noninvasive and silent.
But the reason why everyone was silent is what I call the psychological barrier of fear.
In fact, one of the most ridiculous ideas was, "Hey, let's have a silent stand.
For some people, that was like, "Wow, silent stand.
And yet, the universe is not a silent movie because the universe isn't silent.
He entered my room, sat on the corner of the bed, and he was silent, so I pulled the blanket from my head, and when he saw me he started laughing.
And it was very obvious that, if we destroy these silent places on Earth, we will be stuck on a planet without the ability to look outwards, because we will not be able to understand the signals that come from outer space.
So it felt that what we could try to do is make a power park and actually bring the whole area in, and using the spare soil that's there on the site, we could make a power station that was silent as well.
And we didn't like that, so we actually, in maybe a couple of weeks, we built these little enclosures that enclosed the projectors, and so we can leave them on all the time and they're completely silent.
The Mayans started speaking to us in the 20th century, but the Indus civilization remains silent.
We saw the food riots in 2008, after what I call the silent tsunami of hunger swept the globe when food prices doubled overnight.
But instead, when we stepped through those doors and into the building, it was eerily silent.
Yet the media remains mostly silent on these stories.
Actually, we're not going to have to talk, we're just going to show you all the slides and remain silent.
It's silent gesture.
And so they realized that they could not be silent as things were going wrong for me in my life.
If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips."
And as soon as it's silent, they sort of creep out.
And if it's even more silent, they stretch their necks out.
My aim is to give a voice to the silent people, to show the hidden lights behind the curtain of the great game, the small worlds ignored by the media and the prophets of a global conflict.
After all, they never used them to teach, comic books and graphic novels were never allowed during silent sustained reading, and they were never sold at our annual book fair.
We have assumptions about material experience, like that paper should be silent or that websites should be flat.
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch, drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon, they think we are looking back at them, which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait like parents for us to close our eyes.
So here you have it, grid-level storage: silent, emissions-free, no moving parts, remotely controlled, designed to the market price point without subsidy.
It's hulking, it's silent, it's cloistered, it's arrogant, it's a design challenge.
And in classical music we can follow these changes very, very accurately because of the music's powerful silent partner, the way it's been passed on: notation.
So each time I draw my circle of chalk on the pavement and enter as the improvising comic silent character I created 45 years ago, I am as happy as when I am in the clouds.
Even if we choose to be silent, we chose to be silent, and we're communicating something by choosing to be silent.
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