mutely

Example Sentences

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Tray tables had one purpose: to be unfolded before a TV set so that instead of conversing with others around a dining-room table, people could eat while mutely staring at a TV screen.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Attendees mutely shuffled in place at first, until Ralph’s resolve pulled them in and turned them up.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2023

It’s your party: You can’t mutely pass it off on the Anti-Defamation League to say from afar that this is terribly, horribly wrong.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Markets reacted mutely with sovereign bond prices up slightly.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2021

He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller