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silently
adverb as in without noise
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Catherine praises those who care for others in need: "Gentle words or a receptive ear, an arm around an exhausted shoulder, or silently being by someone’s side."
On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently.
Elphaba asks her best friend to come with her, but Glinda silently decides not to, instead handing her a black cape to stay warm.
But Agnes is especially lethal in a scene where she simply pulls up an incriminating file on her computer, leaves it onscreen and silently darts out so Lawrence can peer at it.
When he repeated that he would always love her even if she had stopped loving him, she looked ahead silently, tears streaming down her face – but did not respond.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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