unspeaking
Example Sentences
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But it seethes with fathomless challenge, like the unspeaking sea.
From Economist • May 17, 2018
The society she’s chosen is the unspeaking world.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2016
Two days before, Justice Minister Christiana Tah had sat unspeaking at a meeting with international donors.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2014
Much more believable is his father Nikolay, unspeaking and frenetic, chopping up wood for a winter that he must know he will never see.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
This morning not even the cry of a bed-spring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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