muteness

Example Sentences

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I wondered if Sadie, with her supernatural ability and muteness, may be an archetypical prophet figure, like Tiresias, the blind soothsayer from the Greek dramas.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Against this thick muteness, my ears strained to listen for something, anything.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

Harpo Marx’s muteness seems to turn up Groucho and Chico’s physical volume.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 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

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