How To Use Silent In A Sentence

The present study investigated how children spell words that contain silent consonants as their final letter.
This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader. The Times Literary Supplement
That these are things as silently present and inarguable as iron, or night. Times, Sunday Times
Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

He gnashed his teeth together and fumed silently.
Helen closed the door behind the man, and said a silent prayer of thanks.
Despite the noise, they hadn't got in, and Sam offered up silent thanks to the miller who had built so well. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The car slows to a stop in front of the house and the engine falls silent.
The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler. Peace Meals
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt.
Mr Cole remained sombre, straight-faced and silent as the returning officer pronounced Ms Greene, a local school governor, the victor with a 2,000-plus majority.
Elected officials, he lectured, should not speak unthinkingly, but rather, when doubts exist, keep silent.
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran
The approach to Broad Street was silent but for the sound of a beating drum.
It's like a silent alarm ringing on a carefully coded genetic clock.
When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
I eased the door open silently, but the Fool's preternatural awareness served him well. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Regina genuflected before the tabernacle and then knelt down on one of the pews, made the Sign of the Cross and began to pray silently.
AIM:To observe the effect of resveratrol, reactivator of silent information regulator 2 (SIR2), on myocardial cell apoptosis induced by ischemia and reperfusion in rats and SIR2 expression.
Hearing this, Val fell silent and then suddenly exploded into fits of wild laughter.
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information.
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
Caligulae, 55: "_Incitato equo, cuius causa pridie circenses, ne inquietaretur, viciniae silentium per milites indicere solebat, praeter equile marmoreum et praesepe eburneum praeterque purpurea tegumenta ac monilia e gemmis, domum etiam et familiam et suppellectilem dedit, quo lautius nomine eius invitati acciperentur; consulatum quoque traditur destinasse. _ Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
Where else in Montreal can you see bands and spoken word acts, watch silent movies with live music, draw comix with your buddies, buy art from a vending machine or chow down on a tasty veggie sandwich?
But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
The street lay silent and deserted.
His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington
Silently, too, they walked under the IC, past the entwined hearts, the graphic drawings, the amazing suggestions. FAMILY PICTURES
For all its moments of typical silent-movie hamminess, it remains astonishingly modern. Times, Sunday Times
He studies the Forest for a time longer, until the sun begins to rise above the deadland and fields to his left, but the silent presence and lack of overt threat does not change. The Magi'i Of Cyador
Cate stared silently ahead, peering into the grove of trees.
It came as silently as a whisper of the wind.
As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
Just lately, Kyra has been giving me the silent treatment .
Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.
Whenever a dad plays, there is usually a mom playing, who may not realize she is a silent partner.
A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
By now he was in a huddle with two locals, fingering silent chords while one of them played something softly on a penny whistle.
Four silent soldiers with bowed heads stood at each corner of the bier.
The 'h' in honest is silent, as in 'hour'.
Holly looked up at her boyfriend, nodding at his silent agreement to her unspoken request.
Maura let out a nervous guffaw before clapping her hand over her mouth again, keeping her giggles silent.
They were both silent as they returned to the phaeton for the drive across the park. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.
The boys looked at the conjuror in silent wonder.
Really angry, not cry not noisy, but a person silently do not speak.
I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.). Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
There is another couple walking down the street, this one pre-consumerist, their handclasp signifying a ‘right of ownership’ in which she is ‘silently, sadly, complicit.’
It was only then that she was aware of Nicandra standing silent in the doorway, unwilling to interrupt a conversation.
She poured from both into her tumbler, inhaled on her cigar, and sat there silently watching us from her malevolent little eyes. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Lanz was struck silent, and then socked Felix in the shoulder.
Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances.
The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats.
The police officers were silent and grim-faced.
Alucius was silent, watching the realization of what must have happened dawn on the boy.
Zlotin heard a lone scream emanate from underneath the balcony, then the chain gun fell silent. CODE BREAKER
She had an ideal of fatherhood, had gentle, silent, useless Lydia -- formed upon the genial, sunshiny type of parent popular in books, and she cast a romantic veil over disappointed, selfish, crossgrained Malcolm Martie, the Unconquered
This had the interesting side effect of causing his vocal accomplice to fall temporarily silent.
They stood in silent homage around the grave.
Tots fell silent; birds stopped chirping; you could hear hearts beating amid the chattering teeth.
And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
The clock on the wall ticked on, its sound echoing through the otherwise silent room.
Then I go to the scanner, I'm waiting for it to chirp, "Welcome to Wal-Mart!" but it sits silently (much more fashiony to be silent, non?) and I scan my code and then it shoots out a receipt that flies to the floor and I have to scurry around on the floor to find it. Cator Sparks: Bibhu Mohapatra Spring 2011 (PHOTOS, POLL)
During cocktail hour, food was served from local restaurants as guests perused a silent auction that included items like a mosaic seahorse from a store called Pane in the Glass (starting bid: $30), an osteopathic exam, and the ability to be the director of the Ross School for a day (starting bid: $5,000.) Party-Hopping in East Hampton
And yet Judge Luttig brushes this language aside, seizing upon a different sentence in the Endo opinion: The fact that the Act and the [executive] orders are silent on detention does not of course mean that any power to detain is lacking. Is That Legal?: terrorism Archives
But Helen lay in her bed under the roof as silent and immovable as the body of her child.
She turned with a frown and quickly began to stride away, radiating silent hostility.
Suddenly the room felt like a hospital room again, cold, silent and impersonal.
The silent majority of supportive parents and teachers should make their views known.
James Ponsoldt: This notion is at the core of Killer of Sheep: what it means to be an adult, and how children learn and internalize grown-up behavior and responsibilities through lectures, through tears, but mostly by silently observing, peeking around corners, usually unbeknownst to their parents. GreenCine Daily: Filmmaker. Spring 07.
She sat down beside me at the table, silent for a long moment before asking a question.
His sprawl makes me seem like a silent, precise insect.
The protesters sat silently near an empty chair meant to symbolize the absence of the professor.
Ignoring all interruptions, I focused on Alex, the person I was now guarding, and silently assessed his position.
And yet our leaders who talk of freedom and human rights seem to be so silent on this nauseating conduct.
For the past couple of hours our terrier, Brough, has been stretched out in the footwell silently farting. Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
The girl was silent for a moment, then she nodded, grunting in affirmation.
Half a foot of overnight snowfall that stops with the dawn is about perfect, guaranteeing that any tracks you cross will be fresh and the snow underfoot will be silent. The Deer Tracker's Handbook
The fasciated honey-eater has loudly called “with a voice that seemed the very sound of happiness”; the leaden flycatcher, often silent but seldom still, has twittered and whispered plaintively; the sun-birds are playing gymnastics among the lemon blossoms, and the centre of activity for butterflies is the red-flowered shrub bordering the wavering path. Tropic Days
The balding ex-quality systems audit manager stayed silent for a three-minute hearing at London's Marylebone court.
The room was completely silent other than the sound of dripping water from a corner of the room.
pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Silent Hill is the best possible movie that can be wrung from a video game. 2006 April « the balcony fool
Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
Kennedy, the other newcomer, remains silent, his blank, hooded eyes seeming quietly amused by something.
They climb out of their dark, slick Mercedes silently, slamming the doors rather than shutting them.
Jerwon and Tania, still a little speechless, paused in silent contemplation before following them.
It was wise of you to remain silent.
Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
(Henry was silent.) “Where did you part from him?” continued Bothwell; “was it in the highway, or did you give him harbourage in this very house?” Old Mortality
I imagined how this very township must have looked - that silent starlit night when the three Wise Men plodded along the silvery sands to greet the birth of a new born baby.
Silent Grove is the campground & again very pretty nestled amongst the boab and gum trees. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Tuscaloosa resident James Sykes told CNN the massive twister was "like a silent monster.
In Winchester a single bugle player sounded the Last Post before the cathedral grounds fell silent.
Rudolph, the Adonis of the silent films, had one great quality — to make women feel weak at the knees.
Victor Sjöström's silent Swedish classic "The Phantom Carriage" 1921, based on a novel by the Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, could be watched as rewardingly on Christmas or Easter, thanks to its religious content. The Horror, at Home
He is entitled to remain silent and require the prosecution to prove its case.
The resulting film, Blackmail, was begun as a silent and then in large part reshot to take advantage of the new sound technology.
Forrest silently toyed with the toothpick lodged between his lips.
And the bad news for mr. shay is that his cherished "silent, white, anglo-saxon, christian majority" just MAY not be the majority any longer! News from Bizarro World
These prejudices are gradually and silently melting away; and it is cheering to see the better feelings of our nature effectively advancing the art to its legitimate place in education, under the guise of gymnastics and callisthenics. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
The light outside had dwindled away to almost nothing, and silent soldiers on padded feet were lighting braziers and turning up gas lamps.
The camera is set up in a rural setting and pans silently across the flat horizon.
I belong to a generation of kinless childhoods, where we grew up without grandparents, numerous uncles, aunts, cousins and relatives who had perished, yet whose silent presence loomed in the background.
But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.
Hundreds of people suddenly converge on a laundrette and silently stare at a washing-machine while eating bananas.
People can go to concerts, music performances and drumming workshops or a silent art auction.
These frozen, silent moments were punctuated by the hum, whir and click of slide projectors changing and revolving, reminding us of their outdatedness and sheer physicality.
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran
His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
Punch was waiting, small and silent, in his leather apron.
The debate continued, but Meredith remained silent throughout.
When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle. The Invisible Man
The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
In the months, or sometimes even years, between flows, a silent countercurrent moves in the opposite direction.
I had successfully managed to push all negative feelings to the back of my mind, and here they resided, silent ghosts, awaiting me to hit the rewind so that they could reappear, be resurrected.
He moved silently, on the lookout for tracks, droppings or other animal signs.
It rolled up on a pair of silent hinges, disclosing a narrow stairwell.
On the ship he played bingo, went to the shows, dressed for dinner, and maintained his silent decorum.
It did, for the gun he took was an almost silent air rifle.
With her silent calm, his sister-in-law sighed, leaning against the doorpost.
We play a lot of party games, and sand timers are inaccurate, and are silent when they run out.
The cortège drove past the university, where hundreds of students and staff silently lined the pavements or watched from vantage points on surrounding buildings.
D.C. Water's Wendy the Waterdrop answers customer questions silently, fuzzily (DCist) DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 27, 2010
The cue of answer: calm and silent, clearly, strong standpoint, positive pertinacity, kind heart and care about other people, strong adaption and sense of humor, optimism and fraternity.
He stared out of the window in silent meditation.
The cat padded silently along the track.
A man appears silently and puts a pile of thin books on one of the berths in our compartment.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
The moon slid silently behind a cloud.
Now he was silently, morosely drunk and, as the evenings progressed , soddenly drunk.
The noises of the performance were now a distant murmur, but other than that it was completely silent.
The fog lay thick and cold over the countryside that morning, and inside the barracks it was pitch-black and silent, except for the deep, steady breathing of the gunners.
But still, to approach Zack & Miri with some hesitance is warranted, as the last time Mr. Smith made a film outside of the Jay and Silent Bob universe, we got the wince-inducing, aformentioned Jersey Girl. REVIEW: Zach & Miri Make A Porno « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
I find it highly improbable, almost impossible, that poor minions who were duped into planting explosive fire extinguishers which ended up in mass murder of their fellow citizens would remain silent all these years for fear of their own, guilt-ridden lives. 1000 Architects and Engineers
Some small, silent birds hopped on the ground, beneath the cholla. PREY
Wired into the way we are forced to live there are silent imperatives, unspoken propositions about the world.
A second croak tore like a whip-lash through the silent forest.
Belfrage was silent for a while, then inserted the probe once more. THE ENDLESS GAME
Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor.
The void of the Berlin Museum is incessant, obtrusive and silent.
He contemplated whether to endure Curt's verbal abusiveness or silently return to his room.
Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
She very nearly made Edie feel inadequate by the sheer felinity of her movements, by the sensuous grace of her silent prowl, the lively flicks of her tail.
Her heavy footsteps clopped off into the distance and the room was silent.
The 50 cm plaster duck has a little cowbell on its neck, to prove that it's really not alive, as the cowbell remains silent.
The guns are currently silent, but a number are being primed for action.
Unfortunately she was sitting next to him - he was silently adamant about that.
The running lights of ships tracked silently down the Channel, outbound for tropic islands in distant seas. CORMORANT
The so-called hybrid bus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaust fumes.
Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
The briefest of glances in her direction found her to be still looking at me, still silent.
A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.
Not only did he love every movie he saw, he loved every change in the technology of movies he witnessed, from the silent screen to talkies, from black-and-white to technicolor, from two-dimensional to three.
I clambered over to him and rested my head on his chest, silently listening to the soft rhythmic beating of his heart as he absently ran his hand through my hair.
The proceedings include a silent auction, dinner catered by Stars Restaurant and, yes, plenty of dance.
Even nowadays, the following injunction may be found in occult schools: “know, dare, do, and be silent.” Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Magnatum scrinia; veni, per Noctis & tenebrarum abdita profundissima; per labentia sydera; per ipsos motus horarum furtivos, Hecatesq [ue] altum silentium! Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
But in her usual taciturn manner, the president kept silent, leaving it to her ministers to justify the hikes to the public.
I heard it was a blast but there are also some rumors that the crowd was kinda silent and "unlively" - maybe because tired of standing for several hours. WW: Design, Prose, Fashion, Music, Photography, Bliss and Beyond
When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.
Shi Jialei, who is talkative and always wears a smile, said he was a wordless and silent child before he came to the school.
A bright half-moon clung to the side of the main house like something unfinished, and Neal could see the fever trees that lined the drive, thick with roosting vultures, bald-headed and silent, and the rolling tilt of the hills that clustered on the horizon and then dropped off into Ngorongoro. The Laugh
The judge directed the defendant to remain silent.
They huddled together in silent groups.
The children fell silent at the approach of their teacher.
The Wood Man, we learn, is a silent and odd character, something of a pest, who lets himself into Hilda's house and lies silently, depressively, on his back before the fire. Boing Boing
The party fell silent as they urged their horses into a canter, then a steady gallop.
I made a silent vow to be more careful in the future.
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran
Silently, John replaces the empty can in its place in the line up, turning it round so the label faces McKay's side of the table. Doggdot.us
Mais, la, attention, pas de carabine ou mon adorable pied de biche (oui c mon arme prefere dans silent hill ... ca se voit pas), non, on a juste un chien et puis ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
He held them silent with ghastly stories of the "Yo-hoes" on Monomoy Beach, that mock and terrify lonely clam-diggers; of sand-walkers and dune-haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd's men; of ships that sailed in the fog straight over Captains Courageous
A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture.
Among these the weightiest was the silent George Washington. George Washington
Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
In general, all garden shredders have a high watt motor and come with silent crushing system.
Julia silently fumed at the lack of concern over her departure.
The debate continued, but Meredith remained silent throughout.
Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
Still the present silent ruins speak of their rich glorious past which we are all proud of.
Every cave was silent, lest it also attract disaster.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt.
Tonight there was a thin sheet of ice stretching glassily across it, and the wind was silent.
Fans of cinema, silent or not, will marvel at the acting, the production design, and the inventive nature of the movies, photographic recreations, and documentary material presented.
The cat moved on silent feet.
The sobs were reduced to sniffles, and in silent wonderment, they looked at each other, together at last.
He did, of course, silently cursing himself for walking into the trap at Alan's houseboat. THE LAST RAVEN
Do you feel the person is especially silent, agitated or tense?
Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy. The Convert

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