silences in English

noun
1
complete absence of sound.
sirens pierce the silence of the night
verb
1
cause to become silent; prohibit or prevent from speaking.
the team's performance silenced their critics

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "silences" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "silences", or refer to the context using the word "silences" in the English Dictionary.

1. My silences made him solicitous of me.

2. She was used to her husband's silences.

3. 19 She was used to her husband's silences.

4. His boisterous humour gave place to lowering silences.

5. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.

6. This, as it were, covers, or shuts, his mouth and silences him.

7. And in the Western world, we're not really used to verbal silences.

8. A man in bed silences his pager, a woman looks at him Blamingly

9. But there were even deeper shadows, strange and grave silences surrounding plans to invade the island.

10. Antonyms for Amplifies include quietens, allays, assuages, softens, dulls, lulls, silences, hushes, mutes and stifles

11. In such cases, the communal tables and the open kitchen can smooth over awkward silences.

12. Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans - Kindle edition by Shapiro, Ben

13. I'm like a junior varsity cheerleader sometimes -- for swearing, awkward silences, and very simple rhyme schemes.

14. Silent Anatomies is a poetic-visual hybrid that traverse the body’s terrain, examining the phenomena of cultural silences

15. The long silences were often broken by the roar of bus engines and rumble of bus announcements downstairs.

16. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience.

17. “How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression.” American Political Science Review, 107, 2 (May), Pp

18. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.

19. There was some fatal flaw in his makeup,(Sentencedict.com) and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.

20. This way a single grant command provides an absolute grant for one UE and at the same time silences other UEs in a cell.

21. 19 Note that using this non-discriminatory silence truncation method removes any screenplay beats (deliberate silences) you have inserted, so such beats are best inserted after this process.

22. It was a language full of alliteration, sudden turns of speech, high registers, changes in volume and unexpected silences in which the speaker took prolonged and exaggerated breaths

23. “Test Pattern” achieves a lot with very little: The film’s nonlinear editing and Cannily scored silences invite our interpretations, locating in them the entanglements of race and gender

24. We made that small house ring with boisterous mirth and resound with the murmur of much sober talk, making amends then to Walden vale for the long silences.

25. The not so noticeable bad sides are the fact that Glyphed Strangulate silences for 7 seconds at once, which might be 2 seconds that you lack if you pick Asphyxiate

26. The Coochie Business Podcast is a platform dedicated to conversations that are breaking silences around sexual & reproductive health, education and justice issues impacting Coochies in general…Black Coochies in particular

27. A Cogitative woman who was given to long silences, even in the company of her own family First Known Use of Cogitative 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Learn More about Cogitative

28. Stazzo Areste stands in a scenario made of Mediterranean maquis, granite stones and silences that, as its name says - "Areste" in Sardinian dialect means " Wild " - represents ideally the Sardinia of tradition, but heightened to the modern

29. 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down: […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, Crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a

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31. And one feels a sense of expectation throughout the Symphony we heard: slow tempi open and guide us in a hidden, almost timeless dimension; from the first tempo, marked by the indication “Feierlich-mysteriously” to the adagio that opens grandly with the first violins. It develops rising progressively through a succession of bright moments, sudden silences, isolated timbres, and sonorous notes of the organ, from the chorus, to bursts of sound, melodious tones, until it reaches the paccata. The quiet radiant conclusion in E major.