wordlessness

Example Sentences

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When Shane sang, that silence, the awful wordlessness was defeated.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

It’s apt that at evening’s end, the performers stare out at the audience, in a period of serene wordlessness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

“One reason for the terrible wordlessness of the experience is that you cannot observe fire really closely without becoming part of it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

But from you, a period of wordlessness – if not headlessness – would now be most welcome.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017

A silence would follow, a wordlessness over the phone line that told him that it was his problem, not theirs.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie