muteness

Example Sentences

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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

The Chinese-American writer Weike Wang’s short story “Omakase,” published this year in The New Yorker, captures this cultural muteness as well.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

The price of that protection is a conspicuous moral muteness: The light has gone under a bushel, and the salt has lost its flavor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018

She entered one of her long periods of silence—I think it lasted several months—during which she used her little slate, as she had in her days of muteness.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende