unspeaking
Example Sentences
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But it seethes with fathomless challenge, like the unspeaking sea.
From Economist • May 17, 2018
“Come on people,” he said to the unspeaking officers.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2016
The society she’s chosen is the unspeaking world.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2016
Much more believable is his father Nikolay, unspeaking and frenetic, chopping up wood for a winter that he must know he will never see.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
Wearing deep mourning, she would have laid on it, perhaps, a wreath of flowers, as other women did; and stood for a moment, head bowed, considering the unspeaking ground.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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