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
PSG supporters kept protesting at Parc des Princes by giving their team the silent treatment.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024
I decide to continue giving him the silent treatment.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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