muteness

Example Sentences

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I wondered if Sadie, with her supernatural ability and muteness, may be an archetypical prophet figure, like Tiresias, the blind soothsayer from the Greek dramas.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

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

It later became the habitual muteness of the acquiescent.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

But Nana took advantage of the slightest distraction on Nivea’s part to persist in her attempts to cure the child’s muteness with the same remedy she used for hiccups.

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