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

The Chinese-American writer Weike Wang’s short story “Omakase,” published this year in The New Yorker, captures this cultural muteness as well.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

The price of that protection is a conspicuous moral muteness: The light has gone under a bushel, and the salt has lost its flavor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018

Reverend Salles has written to tell him that Vincent “has withdrawn into absolute muteness, hides himself under his bedcovers and sometimes cries without uttering a word.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman