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

It later became the habitual muteness of the acquiescent.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou