silent
Example Sentences
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In public, Arab Gulf states have largely kept silent as protests have spread across the neighboring Islamic Republic and human-rights groups said thousands have died in the regime’s crackdown.
She went silent, and I was thankful she didn’t make hay about my daddy getting himself killed.
From Literature
Many of the streets once engulfed by a roar of anger against the regime are now starting to go silent.
From BBC
The club's ultras stay silent for the first 15 minutes of every match in protest.
From BBC
The novel opens by describing a local gnat infestation that seems to have spread to the writing, because all the words containing “nat” have been given a silent “g,” as in “extermignate” and “gnaturally.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
