silence in a sentence

Example sentences for silence

It's a mistake to focus on noise reduction instead of silence expansion.
Other than the chirping of autumn crickets, the silence is absolute.
Through his silence and walking, he learned to truly listen, both to other people and the world around him.
Spicy compound clears the way for an anesthetic to silence pain sensation.
Looking back, the really strange thing was the silence.
The silence may take place without the listener being aware of it.
Breaking this code of silence might best begin with a strong new police superintendent.
Every inch of the image says winter, peace, silence.
After a short fumble, your fingers press down on a raised button to silence the alarm.
Soon the words about bears and porridge being too hot melt into silence.
Turn scholarship into a police instrument, and scholarship shrivels into silence.
Your correspondent believes silence is even more golden.
It's used because of its efficiency and relative silence.
Anything that would effect money making from major drugs companies seems to produce silence even cures.
Help us break the silence, by breaking your own silence.
At the same time, he has exploited the heightened tension to silence critics at home.
Feel the cold creep into your bones in the deathly silence.
The staff in the auditorium, and the ones on the other end of the video links, watched in silence.
Silence is golden, but the right mood music is priceless.
The silence is occasionally broken to trade tips on software and coding.
What surprised me was the silence that followed his answer.
Our companions grow jittery, and an awkward silence falls.
Executive power run amuck is now met with silence or approval.
As the drill's frequency changes, the waveform quickly adapts to maintain the silence.
When is this ridiculous silence about nuclear power and its potential going to end.
Now imagine nothing but silence and no eye contact for two straight years.
With the silence and the darkness came disorientation.
It is a brief, raspy rattle, usually in a group of two to three with about a second of silence between each call.
If the ban stays in place, millions of followers of the participating golfers will feel the pinch of social media silence.
Then a long silence ensued, broken by brief skirmishes.
Although understandable, their silence perpetuates the illusion that these conferences are a legitimate academic activity.
The scent of incense wafts down the corridors, our footsteps loud and impudent in the silence.
After hours of audio bliss, the headphone's battery unexpectedly ran out and left me in deafening silence.
Inmates live by a code of silence imposed on them by other inmates.
The shroud of silence also covers the month or so before the registration is filed.
It behooves you, then, to be precise in your request for silence about your employment explorations.
Here's a thought efforts to stifle questions, or to silence debate or dissent, have nothing to do with science.
Motion sensors trigger their cheerful chirping and movements but can also be disabled so you can enjoy these birds in silence.
It kept foreign observers out and bullied the local press into silence.
Your silence and failure to answer the questions are quite telling.
But with influence came questions within about their commitment to secrecy and public silence.
Given his predilection for gaffes, his supporters are only half joking when they say he should start that silence now.
It's on those cloudless star-sprinkled nights that they begin to understand the true meaning of utter, mind-clearing silence.
But all was dead calm out here this time, nothing but the vast conspiratorial silence of the bush.
Then there was an awkward silence as though they were waiting for me to answer another question.
Likewise, negative student and peer evaluations of his teaching were met with scorn or silence.
Condemning someone's use of language is a sure way to silence them and perhaps discourage their further education.
Many people's silence and compliance has been bought as well.
It doesn't silence neurons all that effectively, and it can build up and have toxic effects in brain cells.
There was silence inbetween tracks, and the next song began.
The only way to silence me is to present a mathematical proof that contemporary physics is logically consistent.
His presentation was met with silence, followed by polite, confused applause.
Another feature that's positively surprising for this bike is the silence of its ride.
We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
The first break in this official silence came only two years ago.
At the end of the first day, two were killed and were buried in silence.
In the silence, you could hear viewers across the country reaching for the remote control.
In the sudden silence the dazed combatants surveyed the battleground.
The neurons excite some of their neighbours into firing in tandem, while suppressing others into silence.
Don't muddy the waters with something that cannot be proven and do not try to silence those who disagree.
In silence, the now dim lights flew overhead, then winked off.
He stood there in silence as the second tower collapsed around us.
Storm refused religious rites, and by his request his funeral was conducted in silence.
Stop for a minute, close your eyes and listen to silence.
Epigenetic marks silence certain gene sequences and activate others so that nascent cells can differentiate.
Instead crowds gathered in the square and observed a moment of silence before hooting and hollering.
The stubborn silence heralds victory for the disease: denial cannot keep the virus at bay.
Baseball's deepest problem is not attendance or ratings but silence.

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