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    silence


    silenced


    silences


    silencing


    1. That left him and Ava in awkward silence


    2. Everyone stares at their drink, a sort of collective moment of silence for lost loved ones


    3. Without the buzz of the light, the whooshing of the vents, or the babble of other passengers, he basked in the pure silence of the plane


    4. After what seemed like an eternity of silence, mostly because Ackers was scrutinizing them from the view screen, the elevator finally came to a stop with a sudden lurch


    5. “I would have known all about it if I wasn’t stuck in radio silence land,” he pouted with a completely straight face, something that only Ackers could do


    6. Johnny and Ackers turned to each other in stunned silence


    7. “This,” Ackers finally found his voice, “is Silence


    8. Hate to be with her on the battlefield,” Silence continued


    9. “Really? I highly doubt that,” Silence said as she stepped forward, bringing the spinning blades closer to Nancy


    10. “Good,” Silence responded as she came in closer with her spinning weapons

    11. Before Nancy could really react to what gadget or technique allowed Silence to do this, the attack was on again


    12. Johnny looked uneasily at Silence, who only smirked back at him in a self-confident stare, and then made his way slowly over to Nancy


    13. There was a moment of silence on the other end


    14. “If Red and Silence aren’t worried, it means that the coast is clear for now


    15. They all walked inside, Nancy bringing up the rear of the group and still looking for any traces of Silence


    16. There is silence for a few moments


    17. The Operator turned around to see Silence standing behind them


    18. Silence applied some pressure with her sword on Scar’s neck


    19. Scar tried to turn his head to look back at Silence


    20. “You’re really hating this, aren’t you?” Silence teased

    21. It would ruin the fun for next time,” Silence mocked


    22. “Pass it slowly to me,” Silence said


    23. Silence looked down and saw the gun just at the last moment


    24. Before she could react any further, Scar spun free of her sword and kicked out, catching Silence in the stomach and sending her flying backward


    25. The United Order soldiers sprang into action, bringing up their laser rifles and aiming them at Silence


    26. Recovering quickly from the attack, Silence kicked the gun out of his hand


    27. Scar and all the guards in the room had Silence trapped against the wall


    28. We sit there in silence for some minutes after the policemen have left the room


    29. And every man, woman and child in the audience was stunned into silence


    30. There was a brief silence

    31. Scar advanced on Silence who was watching him in a ready fighting stance


    32. Silence laughed at him, and indicated that he was welcome to try with a gesture of her hand


    33. Scar charged and Silence jumped to the side, kicking out at his ankle as she went


    34. Silence landed on the wall and stuck to it, orientating herself and getting ready to pounce


    35. There is a silence


    36. ‘Yes?’ he said as the silence grows around us


    37. Back downstairs, Scar was watching Silence with a measure of disgust


    38. Silence blocked the punch and skipped up the wall a bit higher before jumping off it and hurling herself through the air at him


    39. The wind was knocked out of Silence


    40. His head was turned away from it as he was watching Scar fight Nancy and Silence

    41. Nancy and Silence were still backing away from Scar


    42. Silence had both swords in her hands, and was threatening him with small swipes through the air


    43. They walked on in silence, a good silence, feeling closer to each other than ever before


    44. There was a moment of awkward silence between them where both father and son cleared their throat at the same time


    45. · Woman may suffer in many ways but never in silence


    46. A man may suffer in silence but cannot hide this from a woman


    47. They held hands in silence for an hour


    48. There is a short silence


    49. minutes of pregnant silence he reached for a pen and then spoke as he signed his


    50. pounding, the breeze stops and there is total silence














































    1. I let it go to voice-mail but the phone was no sooner silenced and back in my pocket than it was vibrating again


    2. I silenced the alarm and turned on the shower, realising at once all the sadness and strangeness that lay waiting in the service


    3. 'Sonny,' still hovered in their ears as Harry firmly grasped the hand on his shoulder and dropped into a spinning crouch; the scream of pain from the hand's owner was silenced shortly as he yanked on his arm to free his hand with such force that as Harry released his hand his own fist smashed into his face and he crumpled like an imploded building


    4. "She probably hoped she could claim one of them" Jim cut her off rudely, and with a dirty look directed at his mother that Emma couldn't help but notice, silenced her


    5. The silenced shots of the Kimber flicked through the air


    6. thumping sound that silenced the crowd into fear of fatal injury


    7. hit the dirt long after the silenced bullet exploded the back of his head


    8. Often time in the scripture we see Jesus giving such a profound answer to his accusers that they were silenced


    9. There was a soft click of his silenced weapon and


    10. Agent Stenworth silenced the agent’s agony with his gun

    11. His expression continued to defy emotion, yet despite his lack of apparent rage, Tetloan was silenced


    12. but a quick glance from the Abbot silenced him


    13. I was calmly chewing on a long straw of dry grass while Morty was casually cracking open sunflower seeds, our thoughts having been silenced and whisked away by the awe-inspiring beauty of Mother Nature’s creation that had completely enveloped us


    14. It silenced Tragus for a moment


    15. “Huh?” before being silenced once more


    16. Looks of cold curiosity were silenced by my knife


    17. Then we told them about the two injured Germans in No Man’s Land and how they had screamed and cried all night long until the trench-mortar had silenced them this left them a bit more sober still


    18. ” I opened my mouth to ask a question, but he silenced me with a raised hand


    19. question, but he silenced me with a wave


    20. “Sir Corporal Lamb will need a loader for the gun so I don’t mind staying”, I know Bert was about to say something but a look from Ted silenced him

    21. ” He then picked up the silenced pistol out of his top drawer


    22. When the artillery duel had ceased, though there was no indication that the enemy's guns had been silenced, the regiments started to pour down the trail leading through the thickly wooded valley intervening between El Pozo and the enemy's position on San Juan


    23. The configuration of the ground seldom admits guns remaining far in rear of the advance, but there is no justifiable hope in advancing strong masses of troops against an entrenched position without preparatory artillery action, and no assault should be ordered until the artillery duel has silenced the enemy's guns and shaken the defending forces


    24. The “Newark,” however, silenced the battery, and Admiral Sampson, from the “New York,” after signalling to Duffield on shore, led the attack with the Flagship, assisted by the “Suwanee” and “Gloucester


    25. The quicker she was silenced, the safer they’d all be


    26. In this book they used snipers with silenced weapons to initiate contact and take the leader out without the enemy knowing what is happening and then opening up with silenced machine guns


    27. A sack was procured from somewhere, into which the dog, now silenced


    28. I sat silenced and stunned and far too angry


    29. In a word, local tribute silenced the critics while Big Government went along its merry way advancing a socialist agenda designed to undermine traditional social values while gradually de-legitimizing the standing principles of Western Culture


    30. Although silenced with his finger, she remained in charge, baby-face pout and doe-eyed gaze captivating him

    31. The rest of Karla’s shouted warnings were silenced as the man rushed back to her side and slapped the tape back in place


    32. Then his mouth silenced mine, his body driving me back into the coats, hard against the wall


    33. As the other men silenced, he put it down again


    34. “Mike really,” she silenced him with a dismissive wave of her hand, “if you could only have seen…”


    35. �Well, Jonathan, it may be hard to prove this in a court room, but sir, if this goes to trial, the blackmail material on your brother would have to go public, and what would that do to him personally You silenced Laura because she continued to threaten you with it, but if you fight this in court, it goes public any way,� Steve related as he looked straight at Jonathan


    36. The checks were gone and Walston was silenced


    37. The plan called for a small squad to move in quickly when the jeep passed and cut the fence below the northwestern tower, then ambush the jeep when it returned, using silenced 9mm automatics


    38. “Very well, then,” Flores replied, nodding at the silenced box


    39. Sylvia gripped the edge of the table with both hands and opened her mouth to speak, but he silenced her with an upheld hand


    40. Naturally, it was in both their interests that the women be silenced

    41. This second friend of yours, who was with you that night in the harbor and knows about my business, is going to have to be silenced


    42. He had only been born the night before in a damp cave full of strident men, their endless, mirthless cacophony silenced by the sudden and unexpected cries of a child gasping for air and a mother suffering the pains of labor


    43. She silenced him with her lips, pressing tightly to him and caressing the back of his neck


    44. Only then did they simultaneously realize the presence of a silenced airship,


    45. Fortunately, he managed to overcome it, the brief outbreak silenced


    46. At the grave, the chattering about the good old times and keeping up to date is so bad, they have to be silenced before for the mister can start speaking


    47. Were silenced by the wisdom of nature


    48. ” She silenced him with a wave


    49. I feel it is not out of the question that they are coming to the conclusion that I should be silenced


    50. One of them blew itself up with its first shot, a second managed a second shot before blowing up, the third was silenced by our counter battery fire, but not before destroying one of our bridges










































    1. This, combined with Iain’s quite understandable jitteriness as he faced leaving not only the life he knew but also the world he had spent his life on, made for some uncomfortable silences and more than one irritable spat


    2. There were plenty of silences during which he could have been saying things for Angel's ears only, or other Angels could have been saying things to him


    3. the worst of the upset and are in the process of recovery, with deep sobs separated by silences


    4. The collective silences and


    5. We could also hear the crash of the big guns as they fired and the silences as they reloaded then the crashes would start all over again


    6. He was just beginning to catch the note of absolute conviction and seriousness of the situation coming across in his Aunts voice and her silences


    7. that silences any notion(s) of wrongdoing


    8. I read, wrote, absorbed the limitless silences


    9. They hadn’t spoken for an hour or so, but there were no uncomfortable silences between them, even the stillness between them was mesmerizing


    10. exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed, where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose,

    11. A surge of bleakness through his gut brought to mind his companions: Isabella, with all her strange silences, Johan, and of course the boy


    12. dialogue between themselves, in the cold silences that followed,


    13. The silences we choose are the echoes of our solitude


    14. remember the odd silences that hung in the air between impacts,


    15. and the silences that I have silenced,


    16. The leader, Gooto, silences the hunters and the bewildered tribe with one mighty thunderous roar


    17. His wife’s reproachful silences became reproachful words, then anger, then violence


    18. To these and many, many other questions, probing looks, pregnant silences and sudden demands from both inspector and constable, Robert answered thoughtfully, succinctly and calmly


    19. His knocking was so sudden and forceful that it startled the occupants of the house, who at the time were in one of those awkward silences that punctuate a family row


    20. “Prayer silences the passions of the soul, assuages the rebel ion of anger, dismisses envy, dissipates evil desire, withers the love of worldly things, and brings great peace and serenity to the soul

    21. But now it was reduced to isolated shots, long silences between them


    22. She was used to uncomfortable silences


    23. Remedios the Beauty stayed there wandering- through the desert of solitude, bearing no cross on her back, maturing in her dreams without nightmares, her interminable baths, her unscheduled meals, her deep and prolonged silences that had no memory until one afternoon in March, when Fernanda wanted to fold her brabant sheets in the garden and asked the women in the house for help


    24. Some silences are incriminating


    25. Even so she finally noticed the deep silences, the sudden outbursts, the changes in mood, and the contradictions of her daughter


    26. Beneath our indoctrinations, I saw specialized expectations upon which we nurtured our cultures, and the meticulously shaped silences that had delicately directed me to believe only what others had made apparent—insisted upon, while other options were cleverly hushed… as was I


    27. Beneath our indoctrinations, I saw specialized expectations upon which we nurtured our cultures, and the meticulously shaped silences that had delicately directed me to believe only what others had made apparent—insisted upon, while other options were cleverly hushed


    28. Wedon questioned them for about an hour and they were more than willing to answer all and every question, no hesitations or awkward silences, I was impressed with Wedon’s skilful questions and I was convinced the two novices had not been accomplices to Yaotl’s treason, when Wedon finished his questioning, we discussed the findings and we were all in accord, Coatl stood and addressed the people


    29. In times between it was shouts and screams or silences like a distant volcano between explosions


    30. Long silences had become our routine

    31. punctuated by awkward silences, she said, ‘There’s something I’ve got to tell you


    32. chatted to Tom and me and helped prevent too many long silences, but in Andrew’s absence


    33. Awkward silences were combated by easy smiles


    34. He is a trumpeter in the regiment stationed in Jena, and he brings his trumpet to fill up awkward silences


    35. We’d had a few simple conversations on the phone and via text outside of work, but this was our first official date, and I hoped we wouldn’t be encumbered by too many awkward silences and uncomfortable moments


    36. She had received the impression, owing to these silences, that though it was God's ordinance, as her father in his official capacity at weddings reiterated, it was a reluctant ordinance, established apparently because there seemed no other way of getting round what appeared to be a difficulty


    37. He had the same prolonged silences


    38. event just in case of any awkward silences! Questions are also good for testing her


    39. She didn't like Everard's silences; she remembered several of them during that difference of opinion he and she had had about where Christmas should be spent


    40. Jesus answers them convincingly, and silences them

    41. Without warning, everything silences


    42. After talking for a while and when too many silences punctuated our smiles, she searched and found a pack of cards


    43. Hushed silences followed Massie throughout the halls, but she refused to let their stupid mutterings intimidate her


    44. How did Andrew Galvin stand being alone here day after day while his wife was at work? But perhaps solitude was preferable to long uncomfortable silences, broken only by the next argument, to company that created strain without companionship


    45. � He told me he was "kind of shy about these things" shy, which accounted for his class silences, but he liked the class a lot and wanted to show me some things


    46. Language expresses and articulates personal experiences from both within the silences and secrets of the mind, and vocal articulation from the noise of the mouth


    47. We’ve had our share of fights, cold silences, and personal dislikes of each other in amidst the joys of our marriage


    48. There are those to whom these persistent silences of Scripture are as expressive of divinity, in 'reason's ear,’ as its positive utterances


    49. It is matter of notoriety, moreover, that almost every fact in Christ's life is received by us under a slight fractional difficulty in the evidence arising from the differing statements and silences of the evangelical reporters


    50. pointed silences, heavy steps with a hanging head, and a fear or loathing of the limpid





































    1. Upon seeing the eyes of the little beast, Topher whipped the door into a closed position, silencing the violent wind, though the child’s greedy finger, writhing like a serpent, burrowed its way into his thoughts


    2. In the silencing hush comes forth: The Antichrist!


    3. “Every so often, certain of the women of our lineage have for generations developed within themselves the necessary strength of spirit which allows them to conquer the silencing power of death and carry their wisdom forward for the benefit of themselves and for following generations


    4. ineffective tactic, with Heather silencing the last of Roman’s lessons by putting her


    5. The water is not cold at all as the pool is in the full sun the whole …” He was still talking when she kissed him on the mouth, silencing his words with her lips


    6. Sebastian raised his hands, silencing them


    7. The beast lifted its face and bellowed in pain as Russell put a bullet in its head, silencing the creature


    8. Felix pressed a button beside the warning light silencing it


    9. “Katelyn…” he started softly after a pause and I shook my head silencing him “Don’t


    10. “The bush that was here has been replaced by an Illusion of a bush, used with silencing spells to hide construction that was taking place here this morning, while we were eating breakfast

    11. A week ago I’d have repaid those critics with a few well-placed bruises, but we’ve since sworn the vow of justice, so now I must be contest with silencing them with a decisive victory in this challenge


    12. 22 And when the multitudes heard they were wondering at his teaching; And some of the scribes answered and said to him Teacher you have well said; But the rest of the Pharisees when they saw his silencing the Sadducees on this point gathered against him to contend with him


    13. That was one of the first spells that he learned in the magic school and very popular among the boys who entertained themselves silencing mutually


    14. Letters saved in the computer suggest he was silencing the headmaster to stop him revealing his involvement in the murder of Murray Corso, the attack on Vaselly, the burning of the shed with Karim locked inside, and the sabotaging of Vaselly’s brakes


    15. Todd allowed them to vent their anger for a couple of minutes before raising his hand and silencing the mob


    16. The water around my legs churned and I could hear the ocean loud and chaotic as it rose up in a towering tsunami, slamming down upon the forest in the distance, felling every tree and silencing the songbirds


    17. Without the usual blare from the exhaust of a trials bike, the machine had additional silencing, and it purred away as the man accelerated hard towards town


    18. Embracing their passion with sweet desire Whispered words are spoken as they tire Silencing their screams within


    19. That AH-4 found the culprit Japanese mortar men after a minute of searching, blasting the enemy crew with a salvo of 3-inch rockets and silencing it for good


    20. “Fifty-nine,” Bob said, smiling as he stopped the beep, silencing the room

    21. Silencing David Jabran reverted to his job


    22. silencing her, therefore this strike was not only as swift as the wind but also long been prepared!


    23. She thought of silencing her but at the


    24. Silencing mankind is better than questions to hide


    25. In an age of split attention, quality time only has meaning when it is explicitly disconnected from the digi-grid and two or more people find each other in the silencing of ASworld and the focusing on the other


    26. “Your listening is silencing


    27. Taylor roared, silencing for a moment his audience


    28. “In a world of app lause, where you never hear the victims scream in pain, because you have the Worship Filter on, how many voices are you silencing as you stream another expensively crafted I'mage of yourself for their bemusement? How much is the world paying for the self-promotion of your trivial observations? How many nuclear reactors must be made to generate the energy to record, upload, store, play, replay, again and again on innumerable computers for an unknown length of time all the videos of ourselves fucking each other with nu and more elaborately designed and conspicuously extravagant paraphernalia? Is the world really going to die because we can't break our endless and expensive fascination with our own genitalia? From plastic surgery to animalbot pornography, from sweatshop lingerie to FuXconn apparatuses, how much energy is spent to make us beautiful, to get us 940


    29. silencing the entire diner


    30. Silencing the call, she turned the phone off and padded back to the kitchen

    31. It had happened years ago, but even farther back, as far back as she could remember, every time she had asked leave of her father to do anything it had been refused; and refused with bits of Bible, which was so peculiarly silencing


    32. “Yes, where we come from is better than this,” Martina said loudly, attracting attention and silencing them


    33. Maybe we can hold the question of what role inquiry, devotion, effort, surrender, transmission, meditation, gratitude, intention, silencing the mind, studying spiritual books, involvement with a teacher or master, ripeness of the student, karma, grace, and luck play in our awakening with an openness and curiosity instead of needing to define their roles once and for all


    34. The woman has stepped in front of them, silencing any words that might have been spoken


    35. keepers” by silencing him, as he had John the Baptist (Luke


    36. When he was sure they were alone, he thrust his sword through the first mercenary's throat, silencing him forever


    37. Ariella gave him a withering look and slapped a hand over his mouth, silencing him


    38. Silencing the conspiracy does not make money but informing a


    39. I held up a hand silencing the voices


    40. Instead, Gideon directed them along another path holding up a silencing hand at them

    41. I say awakened, because time and London, business and dissipation, had in some measure quieted it, and I had been growing a fine hardened villain, fancying myself indifferent to her, and choosing to fancy that she too must have become indifferent to me; talking to myself of our past attachment as a mere idle, trifling business, shrugging up my shoulders in proof of its being so, and silencing every reproach, overcoming every scruple, by secretly saying now and then, 'I shall be heartily glad to hear she is well married


    42. Unfortunately this conduct, instead of silencing the voices, only


    43. While we rarely see direct silencing of speech by the government in America today, there are other groups out to destroy free speech


    44. The air came alive with the sound of the wind whipping the trees at times and at other times it was profoundly hushed by the endless silencing snow


    45. Thomas ’s height and soldierly physique, combined with a sharp rise in his voice, achieved the rare result of silencing the friar


    46. He flapped clumsily down among the firs, silencing the bats


    47. Who would have thought that this affair was to prove to me the means of an easy riddance of Mr Hickery? But so it turned out; for whether or not there was any foundation for the traffickings with him which she pretended, he never could abide to hear the story alluded to, which, when I discerned, I took care, whenever he showed any sort of inclination to molest the council with his propugnacity, to joke him about his bonny sweetheart, “the Tappit-hen,” and he instantly sang dumb, and quietly slipped away; by which it may be seen how curiously events come to pass, since, out of the very first cause of his thwarting me in the lamps, I found, in process of time, a way of silencing him far better than any sort of truth or reason


    48. The moment of silencing him for ever had passed


    49. Spare us this last? What did he mean by “this last”? “But I will tell you,” she began rapidly, as if fearing his hand upon her mouth, silencing her


    50. The hatch slid closed, silencing the roar of the crowd










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    Synonyms for "silence"

    muteness silence secrecy secretiveness quiet hush hush up quieten shut up still reticence serenity tranquillity gag quell muzzle dumbfound stifle

    "silence" definitions

    the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking)


    the absence of sound


    a refusal to speak when expected


    the trait of keeping things secret


    cause to be quiet or not talk


    keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure