silence
Example Sentences
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The message - "Shhh… silence, please" - is repeated in a chain.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
It’s a place where audiences are required to sit in silence for two hours and listen.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026
Rescue crews working at one of the many buildings destroyed in Venezuela's killer earthquakes called for silence as they heard some kind of sound from a survivor buried in the rubble.
From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026
The first film, 2002’s “Jackass: The Movie” was slow to discover that carnage without camaraderie is painful; several injuries limped off-screen in horrified silence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
The animals that covet silence the most are the alligators.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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