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1746 examples of Silent in a sentence

The change was silent, imperceptible, unless you knew exactly what to look for.
It's just completely silent.
You're expected to be tough physically and silent in the face of adversity.
Having worked with lots of young children, I expected the institution to be a riot of noise, but it was as silent as a convent.
Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face: the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our climate.
It's a noisy material, and if we produce roads like in the Netherlands, very close to cities, then we would like a silent road.
Because it's very hollow, all the noise will disappear, so it's a very silent road.
But how do we not remain silent in the face of abuse?
Battery-powered, it is silent and rarely noticed.
And yet we, the vast and still far too silent majority, have ceded the public arena to this extremist minority.
These are people of immense persistence, incredible patience, and an absolute determination not to be blind and not to be silent.
Fully 50 percent of my archive comes from habitats so radically altered that they're either altogether silent or can no longer be heard in any of their original form.
The whole place was absolutely silent, but the silence wasn't an absence of noise.
It offers us the hope that our silent spring could be replaced by a raucous summer.
Now around Chernobyl, there are scattered ghost villages, eerily silent, strangely charming, bucolic, totally contaminated.
Many were bulldozed under at the time of the accident, but a few are left like this, kind of silent vestiges to the tragedy.
But even if it’s an invisible disorder, it doesn’t have to be a silent one.
She is supposed to be silent and she is supposed to accept the decisions of her father and mother and the decisions of elders, even if she does not like them.
BG: Yeah, because it's a silent thing going on.
Shame keeps us silent and siloed.
One evening, I was sitting out in my backyard in North Carolina, and suddenly, these silent sparks rose up all around me, and I began to wonder: How do these creatures make light, and what's with all this flashing?
It's amazing to think that the luminous displays we admire here and in fact everywhere around the world are actually the silent love songs of male fireflies.
And so I wanted to create an image of a silent catastrophe.
There'll be worlds where, for whatever reason, civilizations either stay silent or don't spend long trying to communicate.
A universe that's silent because technology itself forms the barrier to the development of a truly advanced civilization.
When alternatives are on a par, the reasons given to us, the ones that determine whether we're making a mistake, are silent as to what to do.
When there's no light, it's silent.
We don't have the right to be silent about them because it is easier or because Western policy is flawed as well, because 5:17 is still coming to too many Amel Zenounes in places like northern Nigeria, where jihadis still kill students.
Erion Williams: We're kind of silent in here, aren't we? How's everybody doing?
When I read that in The Advocate magazine this year, I realized I could no longer afford to keep silent.
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