break silence
Example Sentences
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But Ibrahim Sadiq, who has been strongly linked with a move to AZ Alkmaar, scored twice before the break silence a boisterous Pittodrie.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023
It may be unpopular, even in some religious circles, to break silence in the interest of justice, but we must speak.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
To break silence is a transgression, of sorts, of the uneasy cease-fire that settles over people who were once intimate.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2019
Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism."
From Time Magazine Archive
Herbert, too much occupied with his own thoughts, seldom spoke, nor did Kerry, exhausted as he felt himself, often break silence as they went.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
