Example Sentences

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Silences like that come to haunt the capacious hull of “Elon Musk” — to the point that they risk drowning out the project altogether.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023

Silences aren’t just a window to the nature of physical reality but deepen our understanding of our basic cognition.

From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2023

Silences Madison Square Garden by bowing or pressing his index finger to his lips.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2021

Silences are important, too; they are all part of how we converse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2019

In the hurly-burly of life the sense of what Carlyle calls the Immensities, Eternities, and Silences, become so weak that even good men have sorrowfully to admit that they live lives of practical materialism.

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell