How To Use Silenced In A Sentence

An incredulous snort came from Chris, and I gave him dirty look that silenced him up.
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise
His time in the war rose between us like a vaporous cloud that silenced his pain and obscured my ability to understand it.
Will the sounds of those delightful Sichuan sitcoms be silenced forever?
‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance.

Running towards the house alone, through a hail of bullets, he threw bombs at the position and silenced the gun.
The snool at her party was silenced.
Criticism has now been effectively silenced.
The epistemological ideals of clarity, detachment and objectivity have silenced nature's voice.
Our concern here is to emphasize the billions of small wrangles that were altering the collective thought, to summon out of the past, for an instant, an elfin clamour of now silenced voices that prepared the soil for revolution, the not-at-all-lucid propagandists at street corners, the speakers in little meeting-houses, in open spaces and during work intermissions; to recall the rustle of queer newspapers that were not quite ordinary newspapers; and the handicapped book publications that were everywhere fighting traditional and instinctive resistances. The Shape of Things to Come
These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however like a few in England who are a century behindhand, thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains. A brief essay on the general attitude of common folks towards the natural world inspired by a passage in a book by Charles Darwin, Esq.
Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. Malala Yousafzai
Elinor gently remonstrated with him on the meanness and absurdity of such conduct; but he silenced what he termed her impertinent interference in matters which did not concern her. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
Although she was officially silenced, her presence there would have had an impact on local politics and would have provided opportunities to visit and socialize, if not organize and conscientize. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
Such talk was of the nature of an art, and the personalities and informalities of the young were silenced. The Voyage Out
If an investigative committee happens to be struck when the facts speak too loudly to be silenced, it's no big deal.
With a phut from the silenced rifle, the 5.56 mm nano-shell entered through the Crab's eye.
If you stay long enough, you will hear mournful strains from a lone bugle - it is played every hour in memory of the watchman whose trumpeted warning of an invasion was silenced by a Turkish arrow.
Second, by expressing desires that are repressed, silenced, or lost, fantasy literature enables those desires to be experienced on paper, perhaps postponing or replacing their realization in practice.
Legitimate scrutiny, they warned, was being silenced by a single word: 'transphobe'. Times, Sunday Times
The insistent questioners of mainstream practice will not go away and will not be silenced.
With his singular New Orleans-indebted legato style silenced, Little Feat somehow soldiered on, veering into jazzier terrain behind guitarist Paul Barrére and keyboardist Billy Payne. Troubadours, Technicians and Dixie Chickens
Everyone silenced, looking at him standing there, and then, peals of laughter echoed round the table.
Since I can't very well pray, I still hope that more will want to share in conversations that bring openings rather than the airlessness of questions that are silenced or not even formed. Carol Smaldino: Are Americans Free Enough to Question?
He was its poet and its prophet for almost 60 years and when he died Saturday, a lyrical voice was silenced.
At a recent London show, armed with no more than a backwoods beard, an acoustic guitar and an amazing voice, he silenced a room full of gabby, gossipy music-biz types, which is no mean feat.
Hendry is hoping he has finally silenced the doubts over his new cue after beating Dale.
Criticism has now been effectively silenced.
Her disapproval silenced Margaret's urge to ask the woman for help reattaching her fingertip; though it was life threatening, it was also embarrassing.
The cynic in her that questioned his motive had long been silenced.
Unfortunately, Johnson's thunder was silenced -- his reign curtailed -- by the guns and bombs of Vietnam and a challenge from Robert Kennedy, another name redolent of tragedy. Kennedys' dark tragedies never eclipsed their lofty lunar glow
My statement then silenced everyone and the truth was that it totally contrasted with how I felt.
The Edomites shall be stigmatized as a people hated of God, but your eyes shall see your doubts concerning his love to you for ever silenced; for you shall say, and have cause to say, The Lord is and will be magnified from the border of Israel, from every part and border of the land of Israel. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
In this area called the penumbra, cells get a little more oxygen so there is the potential for recovery if the waves can be silenced, he says. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. Malala Yousafzai
How did the faces of those women look like as they clasped their children to their bosoms as the heat and the smoke slowly ate through their skins and their young died in their arms screaming till they were silenced?
Though his attacker was using a silenced weapon, the word silenced did not mean completely devoid of sound and Harvath had developed at least a vague idea of where he was. State of the Union
The different chambers being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
The crowd silenced as a loud clang sounded behind the burly man.
Genes located in heterochromatin are transcriptionally silenced, irrespective of their own promoter sequences.
Artillery positions will have to be silenced, either by superior artillery power or by sending armour and infantry to do the work.
Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly silenced by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh
He had let out a sharp hiss at the sting, but one look from Abigail instantly silenced him.
Despite intense artillery fire, he held the captured position for 48 hours, and with a leader personally silenced the enemy machine guns which were enfilading the troops advancing to his support.
The four-pot JTS motor is smooth, flexible and, though over-silenced, sounds pleasantly fruity.
Daniel, whom Alicia had made out to be such an entertaining conversationalist, had been silenced by the scope of William's achievements.
Dr. Henry Heginbotham, of Stockport, England, says in speaking of the brank preserved in that town: "There is no evidence of its having been actually used for many years; but there is testimony to the fact that within the last forty years the brank was brought to a termagant market-woman, who was effectually silenced by its threatened application. The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Never mind, he'll have silenced a few detractors with this assured performance.
What is interesting is that it appears that here a long-silenced problem is coming to light.
Yoyo stood before both of them, blocking their view of the soldiers in helicopters landing amid silenced gun reports and explosions.
If an investigative committee happens to be struck when the facts speak too loudly to be silenced, it's no big deal.
Where they "bantered," cajoled, and sneered, arousing a very mild irritation, Swift's scornful invective, and biting satire silenced into fear the enemies of the Queen's chosen ministers. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
And there was certainly plenty of noise yesterday, as the unsilenced engines capable of turning at 18,000 revs a minute produced an array of screams and yawps: a barbaric cacophony or the music of the cylinders, according to taste.
All protest had been silenced.
The cell buzzers were silenced at night and instead a light lit up on the sergeant's desk.
A brief murmur rippled through the assembly of firefighters only to be silenced by a gavel banging.
They arrived, a swirl of colour, brightening this black and white movie that silenced our lives.
Any living thing which brought life and movement to stir the sullen stillness of it all would be silenced.
The glint of the silenced pistol was seen as Timothy drew out the weapon.
Her recent achievements have silenced her critics.
Even dissident local government councillors are being silenced by these big money threats.
Silenced herself, she is reduced to the status of his amanuensis.
These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however (like a few in England who are a century behindhand), thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains. Archive 2009-04-01
A beautiful day; the budgerigar had long gone, but other birds trilled and twittered fearlessly, silenced only during the actual battle. THE THORN BIRDS
The rumbling beneath me is suddenly silenced as the wheels leave the ground.
My gun snapped up, and I squeezed off a quick burst of silenced rounds even before his gun was halfway up.
All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power
It suggests the sonic boom can be virtually silenced using superthin wings and hidden engines. Times, Sunday Times
The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. Animal Farm
Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over.
A wife whose mind was oriented in the new direction effectually silenced her husband's ridicule of what he called her credulity by reminding him that when wireless telegraphy was first suggested he had exclaimed, "Ah, that, you know, is one of the things that is not possible! Four-Dimensional Vistas
Furthermore, literature and law can give voice to people who have been traditionally silenced.
My own grandfatherly grumbles are silenced on the day of the show. Times, Sunday Times
She dragged him onto the floor despite his protests and silenced him with an explanation.
And I don't know quote how this has been effected, but somehow I think dissenting voices have been kowtowed into, if not silenced, into a kind of netherworld, and aren't heard. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2003
The author roundly silenced his critics when the densely illustrated, alliterative animal alphabet book sold 1.3 million copies worldwide.
It silenced his critics, confounded his doubters and forced those knife wielders to return those implements to their dusty habitats for another day.
Shouts became so pervasive that she informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced.
They have told radio broadcasters that they had better clean up their act, cut out the smut or face being permanently silenced.
The Kremlin's claim that negotiations are infeasible will be justified, and Chechens who seek alternatives to war will be silenced.
Small colonies went to live in the tall ash trees in Rhue and Dawros until finally there was silence and the raucous cackle of the crows of Banada was silenced forever.
The reproach of the heathen is here for ever silenced and justly retorted. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Gollum, digitally enhanced by actor Andy Serkis's actorly bite, silenced naysayers who argued that synthespians would never emote at the level of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
It shrieks like a scarcely silenced racing car one minute and lopes like a limo the next.
I banged the book shut and silenced the babble of my inner teachers.
The arrival of the teacher silenced the class.
But in all cases, the native authority of the highest calibre is forgotten, omitted, if not silenced.
If anything, this should motivate those of us who can see the manifold difficulties with the current multicultural ideology to critique it with even greater vigour and clear thought and to refuse to be silenced.
The lights dazzled her, before being silenced by darkness.
Artillery positions will have to be silenced, either by superior artillery power or by sending armour and infantry to do the work.
We aimed to uncover the elisions that had silenced our experiences, for example, as working class women, and in Jo's case, as someone living with cancer.
It was important to me not to be silenced by the fear the anonymous caller invoked.
The crowds at this year's Eldwick and Gilstead Gala were temporarily silenced by the thundering noise of a Spitfire and Hurricane roaring past overhead.
But if you really want to sell your stories to the MMs, month after month, do what I do: Go into their office in OD with a silenced Ruger .22 in your hand and ask to speak to the head muck-muck. Mtrimm1: Well, Whaddya Know?
For example, all of the maternal genes whose sequences have coadapted to each other might be expressed and the paternal copies silenced.
I felt such impotence; not only was my freedom of expression curtailed and finally silenced, but at the national level we proclaim that Mexico has a real lack of freedom of expression, and as a result of allowing people to express themselves, I am now out of a job. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
Cultures youth create are criminalized, pathologized, shut down, and silenced, and the powers that be start worrying about losing control of the youth.
BBC Hindi transmissions are accessible in rural and remote areas and, as short-wave receivers can be battery-operated, they are available in places without electricity or during power cuts; they are an essential source of learning for schoolchildren and college students in rural India preparing for competitive exams; and they cannot be silenced in times when democracy is under threat. Letters: BBC Hindi still offers vital service
A terrorist whose deadly plans should be prevented belongs in Guantánamo, the empty zone exempted from the rule of law; a fundamentalist ideologist should be silenced because he spreads hatred. Liberal multiculturalism masks an old barbarism with a human face
he silenced the whisperings which connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation from his wife
At a stroke, all the critics and commentators who had bridled at the appointment of a foreign manager were silenced.
I opened my mouth to say something more but the words could not be voiced as I was silenced by the scene in front of me.
Within many anti-colonial and civil rights struggles, those in control of discursive practices have often silenced voices of alterity in order to unify a people in the struggle against colonial, hegemonic orders.
When victims speakout they are silenced by their superiors because it will ‘reflect badly’ on the regiment they belong to. Rape, murder and general violence in ‘peaceful’ military occupations « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog
As well as claiming a growing international consensus for action, he appears to have silenced - albeit temporarily - the doves in his own Cabinet.
Debates and votings in the assembly, in such cases, become no more than a farce, when every dissent can be purchased and silenced.
Sub-sonic ammunition is necessary for silenced or suppressed firearms to keep the sound of discharge really quiet.
England fans used to jeer him, but Owen Hargreaves silenced his critics at the World Cup and is now turning his thoughts to a Premiership career
Critics who claim opera is not legitimate theater must be silenced by the unforgettable performance that has been preserved here.
That movement saved him, as another silenced gunshot rang out, chipping the hard concrete floor above him.
It's an idea that offers some relief from the specter of the meek and mopey, ‘silenced’ and self-loathing girl the popular psychology of girlhood has given us in recent years.
The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation.
Bourchier's battery coming up in the nick of time, the hostile guns were soon silenced, and Gough, having succeeded in getting through the _jhil_, made a most plucky charge, in which he captured two guns and killed a number of the enemy. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
I think about the weight of those words—how they are silenced by the weight of stone, by the weight of 11 years in a Jinzhou prison cell, weight of compressed dark stone in angled 8 by 10. For Liu Xiabo (in his voice)
They didn't want their fellow officers to see the vulgarity of their choice, so they invented a rule that the officers 'enclosures were for men only, which effectively silenced their popsies' pleas to be taken. ' In The Frame
He looked as if he wanted to say more, so I silenced myself, but he took his time by first blowing at the surface of his mocha coffee and taking a tentative sip.
Given that cells get a little more oxygen in the area called the penumbra, he thinks that there is the potential for recovery if the waves can be silenced. Dailyindia.com News Feed
But the knockers were silenced when Wigan claimed their first piece of silverware in four years, thanks to a 21-12 success over their bitter rivals.
The two juniors looked at each other, silenced by these impossibilities. HUMAN VOICES
But the process by which the media was silenced is troubling, and it, too, is something we should think about. Balkinization
My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
So too was his cry for reform silenced the medieval way.
Running towards the house alone, through a hail of bullets, he threw bombs at the position and silenced the gun.
It would be so much easier if I could believe the official story that a few hijackers with boxcutters and some perfunctory flight training on single-engined planes could have hijacked four large airliners, silenced the crews, turned off transponders, and then expertly guided two of them into the Twin Towers. Why I still question 911
They are silenced and their anger is considered symptomatic of delinquency.
At these positions, although the trigger works fine, and the transposon is silenced, once the trigger is lost, the transposon reawakens, said Jaswinder Singh, a professor in the Plant Sciences Department at McGill University, and lead author of the new article. Can't We All Be Friends?
Yoyo stood before both of them, blocking their view of the soldiers in helicopters landing amid silenced gun reports and explosions.
Flashbangs, frag grenades, silenced semi-automatic guns and sniper rifles are just a few of the arms you can load each member of your team with.
Now at last Johnson and his coach have silenced those who said they were chokers.
His version of Argentine history always adopts the silenced viewpoint of the oppressed.
Her scream was abruptly silenced.
The day we have reformed our education system and permanently silenced the expression "Khuda ulaad deta hai to rizak bhi deta hai" When God gives a child, he also provides the relevant food/income will be the day I dare to dream again for a developing Pakistan. Sachal Afraz: Is Education Really the Answer?
Then a terrific howl of derision silenced him.
Hero opened her mouth to reply, but he silenced her by mussing her hair.
When Vitaly Kutuzov slipped the ball past Craig Gordon after just six minutes, his finish the clinical conclusion to an unfortunate sequence of defensive ricochets, the support that was perhaps Scotland's biggest asset was silenced.
On a molecular level, silenced chromatin consists of specialized heterochromatin proteins and of nucleosomes carrying deacetylated histones.
It is well indeed that our churches, sadly given over to the laxity and carelessness of a bygone age, should be renovated and beautified, the tone of the services raised, and the "bray" of the old clerks, unsuited to the devotional feelings of a more enlightened day, silenced, but still a shade of regret will be mingled with their dismissal, if only for the sake of the large stock of amusing anecdotes which their names recall. The Parish Clerk
Atlanta players who attempted to show assertive self-dignity were silenced or knocked on their keisters.
The revelations silenced most supporters and he was hanged in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916 with scarcely a murmur of protest.
The whisperers have been silenced, for the moment at least.
The results suggested that reactivation of the silenced transgene occurs with cell proliferation.
I raised my arms in the air in jubilation, and grinned vindictively at the student section, which again was silenced.
It follows that in cyberspace the intended victim of a verbal assault is also at least less likely to become disarmed, debilitated, and silenced.
Then we can learn to exercise citizenship, break through the deference to authority which has silenced and disempowered us, and effect change.
In the process of this literary excavation, valuable remains of silenced voices are unearthed and retrieved.
There were a couple of hoots and whistles from the men in our squad, but she silenced them with a glare that could kill.
He silenced it and kept reading while whitish flecks of grease congealed on the hamburger. DOLL'S EYES
The TV has been switched off and the radio has been silenced.
They suggest a type of slipstream— Her words were silenced by an enormous judder, which snapped the bridge around in a dizzying spin, hurling Voktra, Commander Marist, the chairman and everyone else pinwheeling across consoles and slamming painfully into walls and pillars. Star Trek The Next Generation®
Unlike genetic markers, which reveal small "typographic" variations in the spelling of genes, epigenetic markers indicate places where entire genes have been silenced or activated. Beyond the Book of Life
He began firing wildly, his silenced rounds lancing out, and hitting the wall all around the terrorists.
Audiences who've silenced their cellphones before settling into school halls and high-priced auditoria to meet history's odd-bods. Outlook India
At a recent London show, armed with no more than a backwoods beard, an acoustic guitar and an amazing voice, he silenced a room full of gabby, gossipy music-biz types, which is no mean feat.
I meant so many talented Chicanas/Latinas are writing and in a sense the frustration I myself have felt at a sense of marginalization is silenced. Mujeres : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The formal guarantee of women's rights was absent from the initial draft but the refusal of Afghan women to be silenced ensured its inclusion in the final version.
Skewered on a pikestaff high above the city, the silenced heads spoke eloquently of the fate awaiting those who dared plot against rulers of city and country.
An owl hooted mysteriously, but was silenced by the sound of a low snarl followed by a thud.
He may not have seen off the challengers for the leadership of the party, but he has at least silenced them for a while.
He caulked the chasms with philosophic oakum, he 'payed' them with dialectic pitch, he sheathed them with copper and brass by means of audacious dogmatism and insolent quibbles, until the enemy seemed to have been silenced, and the vessel righted so far as to float. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
This someone turns the gaze onto a silenced majority whose everyday experience has been porpusely evicted from the public sphere. Aldo Civico: The King is Naked! In defense of Michele Santoro.
the silenced crowd waited expectantly
The ragged figure coughed, a long gravelly howl which silenced the roars of the last lorries passing us. THE TARTAN RINGERS
In the nonsilenced plant, strong luminescence was detected from all parts of the section, while no luminescence was found in the control plant.
Papers and political disinters (ph) being silenced by police. CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007
All in all, not much got done until Mikhail's aunt Meredith came in and silenced them all with a sharp whistle.
The call for the remembrance of silenced but unvanquished, Mohawk cultural structures rises from this land to Kenny.
While en route they were fired upon by small arms and cannonry as they passed the fortified city on Kanghwa, but they easily silenced these positions.
Charles assured her that she should want for nothing, and commended her for coming to him, and expressed in no measured terms his disapprobation of his father's cruel conduct, but was abruptly silenced by Louisa falling senseless on the floor. Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
The question set a light to a train — and angry suspicions were blazing up one after another, but Amyas silenced them with a countermine. Westward Ho!
Again filial gratitude silenced all but itself, and sleep, the softest she had known for many months, soon gave to oblivion every care in Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The giggles and laughs were silenced when another round of fanfares began.
Once silenced, alarm will re-sound when approximately 2 minutes runtime remain. Epinions Recent Content for Home
For once, the brittle little leopardess was silenced. Times, Sunday Times
Emotions of fear, anticipation, and excitement silenced the team, as they walked with pride and dignity through the campus halls.
He had just silenced the gun when he was killed instantly by a burst from a machine pistol.
The slave mother is silenced and timid before women who embody the witchery of the kitchen, a culinary witchery that in terms of the text represents the power to nourish or kill, to lovingly embrace or smother.
That vermillion against the pale blue of the sky silenced the band, a strange, dead calm sweeping across the grass in a breeze.

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