muteness

Example Sentences

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Now that the clamor of humans had arrived, the muteness of the earth became more significant.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 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

Johns’s muteness about his work is a refusal to take responsibility for how it affects us.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

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