wordlessness

Example Sentences

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When Shane sang, that silence, the awful wordlessness was defeated.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

It’s apt that at evening’s end, the performers stare out at the audience, in a period of serene wordlessness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

“One reason for the terrible wordlessness of the experience is that you cannot observe fire really closely without becoming part of it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

The purity of it, it’s wordlessness – seems like a way through the divide into connection.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019

I feel like freezing on him, passing the rest of the evening in sulky wordlessness.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood