silent

Example Sentences

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“It was a ghost town. It felt awkward for the people attending, because it was so silent and empty... We were just as in the dark about the event as the attendees were.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Numbers were once even greater - after a devastating famine in the mid-1990s triggered what rights groups described as a silent exodus over a more porous border with China.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

But the older I got, the more silent it became, until I too joined my siblings out in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

For an hour we sipped our tea and talked, until the sound of planes died away and the sky was silent.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom