muteness
Example Sentences
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Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021
Recently I wrote a book about those things, Recollections Of My Non-Existence, about the muteness of my formative years.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
Nietzsche’s father died early, from “softening of the brain,” after suffering years of debilitating headaches and periodic muteness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
Smiley plays off Angelou’s muteness in telling the story of his own life.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2015
She entered one of her long periods of silence—I think it lasted several months—during which she used her little slate, as she had in her days of muteness.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
