silent treatment
Example Sentences
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‘He thinks nothing of spending $40K on a new car’: My husband gives me the silent treatment.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025
About times he’d argued with his wife and given her the silent treatment.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025
"I was on probation, I didn't know this person. I thought he might make my life hard at work, that he might give me the silent treatment," she said.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
“I’m not really understanding what the silent treatment is,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher told The Associated Press last week.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023
I’d rather stand outside in the cold, waiting for my mom in the carpool line, than stand inside getting the silent treatment.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
