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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
si·lence
[
sahy
-l
uh
ns
]
/
ˈsaɪ
ləns
/
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Part of Speech:
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silence
Main Entry:
silence
Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
Wondering whether speech was learned or innate, he had several infants reared in
silence
to find out.
The
silence
of the barn is the
silence
of the country and that peaceful quiet crescendoed long into the night.
As the drill's frequency changes, the waveform quickly adapts to maintain the
silence
.
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Wondering whether speech was learned or innate, he had several infants reared in
silence
to find out.
The
silence
of the barn is the
silence
of the country and that peaceful quiet crescendoed long into the night.
As the drill's frequency changes, the waveform quickly adapts to maintain the
silence
.
Eventually, our conversation peters out, and
silence
resumes her reign.
Your
silence
and failure to answer the questions are quite telling.
Nothing broke the
silence
except the buzzing of bees in the distance.
The two waves should thus, in theory, cancel each other out-leaving
silence
.
It's used because of its efficiency and relative
silence
.
And his rejection did come, in the form of deafening
silence
.
Every inch of the image says winter, peace,
silence
.
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