How To Use Silently In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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
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  • 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.
  • Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
  • But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
  • Silently, too, they walked under the IC, past the entwined hearts, the graphic drawings, the amazing suggestions. FAMILY PICTURES
  • Cate stared silently ahead, peering into the grove of trees.
  • It came as silently as a whisper of the wind.
  • 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.
  • Really angry, not cry not noisy, but a person silently do not speak.
  • 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.’
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • They climb out of their dark, slick Mercedes silently, slamming the doors rather than shutting them.
  • Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
  • Forrest silently toyed with the toothpick lodged between his lips.
  • 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 camera is set up in a rural setting and pans silently across the flat horizon.
  • Hundreds of people suddenly converge on a laundrette and silently stare at a washing-machine while eating bananas.
  • His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
  • He moved silently, on the lookout for tracks, droppings or other animal signs.
  • 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 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.
  • The moon slid silently behind a cloud.
  • Now he was silently, morosely drunk and, as the evenings progressed , soddenly drunk.
  • He contemplated whether to endure Curt's verbal abusiveness or silently return to his room.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
  • Julia silently fumed at the lack of concern over her departure.
  • He did, of course, silently cursing himself for walking into the trap at Alan's houseboat. THE LAST RAVEN
  • People slipped by silently, furtively, like ghosts -- white-faced women carrying infants in their arms; fathers leading children by the hand; singly, and in couples, and in families-all fleeing out of the city of death. Page 7
  • The faces of all the scholars were turned silently and deferently to their books when the 'Squire banged with his whip-handle on the door. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk
  • He looks and sounds like the second curate in a three-priest parish, and his speciality was killing silently.
  • I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him.
  • Moving as silently as only could a man who had been both herder and scout, he slipped through the quarasote, using his night vision and Talent-sense to make his way to the wash on the north side of the lane. Darkness
  • Sekher lay sprawled upon his back, twitching spasmodically, mouth working silently.
  • The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead!
  • Doors slid silently closed behind him and he began to descend.
  • He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.
  • Are they silently acquiescing to the policies of a government that is as mean as Scrooge?
  • The audience stayed in their chairs silently until the last credit rolled.
  • Really angry, not cry not noisy, but a person silently do not speak.
  • Silently, freely, and with no biassing influence, in the unapproachable chambers of her own thoughts did she weigh the real character of Eaverson, as far as she could understand it, against what was merely external and personal. Married Life: its shadows and sunshine
  • Finally, he cut the two remaining engines, and they rolled silently to a stop.
  • Through the dialer, users' modems are silently disconnected, then reconnected to the internet through an international long-distance number.
  • He started off playing nothing, and the sparse drums-bass-and-vocal effect might have seemed stylised if Ross wasn't standing next to him like a haddie, strumming silently away. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
  • A hundred affectionate contests on such points as these, took place on the sad night which preceded his departure; and, as the termination of every angerless dispute brought them nearer and nearer to the close of their slight preparations, Kate grew busier and busier, and wept more silently. Nicholas Nickleby
  • Silently she resolved to make a better impression on the imposing woman the next time around.
  • I silently cursed myself for the quiver in my voice.
  • If a compliment did get thrown your way, you either accepted it silently or downplayed it until it sounded more like an insult.
  • He hated how his uncle crept up silently on him; it was both eerie and uncanny.
  • She silently packed away everything except the cotton blanket wrapped around her, a piece of delicious looking bread, and the emerald.
  • Before the young man knew what was happening, two of the figures at the alley's entrance fell silently, silhouetting another dark figure with a silver longsword in his or her hand.
  • If you ask people to stop swearing or blaspheming, some people will silently respect you while others will go out of their way to turn the air blue.
  • She held the pillow to her face, letting it soak up her tears, and wept silently.
  • Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
  • I remember my mother shooing us, silently, into the basement, her grabbing the cast iron skillet and standing to the side of the door.
  • When the conversation lulled, the Captain sat silently brooding over his cigarette, head bowed.
  • Breathe naturally, lout slowly, silently repeating your focus word or phrase every time you exhale.
  • Ann froze with terror as the door opened silently.
  • So spoke Mrs. Tynan to her daughter, who alternately swung backwards and forwards in a big rocking-chair, silently gazing into the distant sky, or sat still and "cackled" as her mother had said. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Really angry, not cry not noisy, but a person silently do not speak.
  • Maddy slowly opened the door a crack and silently slipped in without being noticed.
  • Clouds crept up silently like assassins from the southwest and gathered in a dark and threatening mass.
  • Sitting there silently for a while I took in the view of the ocean, and the salt air that carried with it the sharp smell of cut grass.
  • Robert silently prayed to God, hoping that others were backing him up on this case.
  • How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will too. Michelle Paver - An interview with author
  • Grace crept away silently, and climbed a tree that overhung the path.
  • Many donkeys pattered by under their loads of encinal fagots, the ragged, expressionless drivers plodding silently at their heels. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
  • Professors, students, and townies alike stood around us, sobbing silently at the destruction of the most beloved building on campus.
  • Both men were unsmiling, and when they came to the table took their seats silently.
  • Impressed with this convergency of testimony from so many different quarters, they will be utterly at a loss to account for the unanimity of these early witnesses -- all sharing in the same delusion, all ignorant that a false Mark has been silently substituted for the true Mark during their own lifetime, and consequently assuming as an indisputable fact that the false Mark was received by the Church from the beginning. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • A garden outside our window may call to us silently by rippling-in-the-breeze lavender agapanthus or eye-high crape myrtle.
  • These are the days when I can't be bothered talking about the hassles, but am happier just blurting them out ‘silently’ on here.
  • Settling into a plastic chair, he became engrossed, silently mouthing the words as he read.
  • Once seated in the armchairs around a blazing fire, they ordered tea and waited silently.
  • In the comfy lounge, a 20-sided die rolled silently across a table like a tumbleweed.
  • We stood there silently for a few minutes, only the sound of the waves gently slapping against the boat could be heard.
  • Their singular talents die indecorous deaths; their individuality is silently squelched under the rigid and coercive iron heel of authority.
  • It took me about 2 minutes before I'd quietly undone the two zips on the tent door and silently projected myself head first out of it.
  • The screensaver on the monitor in front of him was swirling silently around, endlessly spinning patterns in front of his eyes. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • He got up from his straw pallet, cursing silently at having been interrupted from a good dream about riding the open plains in the summer.
  • Rather than protest anymore, he took his punishment silently and disappeared into his room.
  • Once Moon-Watcher heard the unmistakable sound of a bush, being uprooted; the elephants and dinotheria did this often enough, but otherwise they moved as silently as the cats. 2001 A Space Odyssey
  • Mrs. Dods put on a joyous countenance at this proposal, protesting that all should be done in her power to make things agreeable; and while her good friend, Mr. Bindloose, expatiated upon the comfort her new guest would experience at the Cleikum, she silently contemplated with delight the prospect of a speedy and dazzling triumph, by carrying off a creditable customer from her showy and successful rival at the Well. Saint Ronan's Well
  • They stared silently at the impenetrable curtain surrounding the ship, and each face was tense with anxiety.
  • North overcalled one spade, for which East silently thanked him. Enduring success
  • Silently Travis cradled the snifter of cognac between his big hands. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
  • A very skinny girl wandered in silently a few seconds later.
  • Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood. Men of Iron
  • It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came .... Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
  • White wondered silently if this man he chanced to meet in the desert were really as well intending as he seemed to be.
  • It has a sturdy, completely enclosed bearing mechanism that runs completely silently and it affixes to the side of the cage with 3 wing nuts.
  • Val's food supply was going on short, she would have thanked him, but instead silently did so.
  • I watch in horror as the figure draws a bag into the entryway, closing the door silently.
  • Christ silently submitted to it; but, when he grew proud of it, he made him know himself: "All the power thou hast is given thee from above," which may be taken two ways: -- First, As reminding him that his power in general, as a magistrate, was a limited power, and he could do no more than God would suffer him to do. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • On approaching the edge of a pond at a distance from a “spring” of teal, they may be seen silently reposing on the water.
  • Most of us used a topical disinfectant called Mercurochrome which was silently banned by the FDA in 1998 because it was no longer considered safe due to its mercury content for all our wounds when we were young. The UltraMind Solution
  • Without effort she ran silently up the four flights of steps to Senator Montgomery's floor.
  • When she could see nothing in them but frosty hostility, he turned and left silently, her hair still gripped firmly in his hands.
  • For the next act of our little drama I sat silently while she complained, nodding my head so much I looked like a sufferer of rampant titubation.
  • Drea was poring silently over the books around her.
  • As Erik stood up, Maria silently mouthed the words ‘I'm sorry’ to him.
  • He is literally on the edge of his seat, silently reciting her pitch, word for word, right along with her.
  • Unable to relax, Ben walked silently across the floor to the window and peered outside.
  • He hated how his uncle crept up silently on him; it was both eerie and uncanny.
  • Strange shadows moved silently in the almost permanent darkness.
  • She was usually silently stubborn but was on occasion prone to emotional outbursts.
  • He noticed Rolfe standing silently over by the window.
  • Higgins, a small stout woman who usually speaks in a booming Irish brogue, nods silently.
  • Only one single figure silently slid through the gates, cloaked with a black cape, face hidden under the hood.
  • I laughed and finally managed to pull my gaze away, silently blessing him for breaking the tension.
  • Very often staff feel that their colleagues have been silently and invisibly spirited out of the company in a surreptitious and clandestine manner.
  • Silently, he went to his car, removed the pistol from the glove box, screwed on the silencer, and placed it under his coat.
  • The first white men to press the soil of the township were the armed, belted and buckskinned knights under Col. William Crawford, in 1782, as they went silently, swiftly and with grim determination to battle. death and disaster on the Sandusky plains.
  • Errors and omissions in Greek diacritical marks have been silently corrected. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
  • Rion moved silently through the tall grass toward where he estimated the group of five would be at the moment, wincing slightly as the last after - effects of teleporting himself wore off slowly.
  • I wanted peace and quiet so I slid silently into the family room slash game room and sat down on a beanbag chair.
  • Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively, his eyes on hers the entire time.
  • The city population was not openly hostile but the humans were watched silently as they made their way through the streets.
  • We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.
  • Then I silently mounted the stairs myself, and crouched two steps from the top to listen.
  • The closest thing to a regular community gathering is the weekly bingo game, where elderly neighbors assemble every Friday night in the school auditorium, silently dabbing rows of cards in hopes of taking home the $500 grand prize. American Grace
  • The cat crept silently towards the bird.
  • Taking a deep breath, he went back to his desk and stared at the screensaver swirling silently in the corner. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • The first great shadow that fell on this united little circle was when George Mansion's mother quietly folded her "broadcloth" about her shoulders for the last time, when the little old tobacco pipe lay unfilled and unlighted, when the finely-beaded moccasins were empty of the dear feet that had wandered so gently, so silently into the Happy Hunting Grounds. The Moccasin Maker
  • Even now, as it spiraled into the furthermost reaches of her mind, it silently beckoned her to follow, and she almost abandoned her attempts at wakefulness so she could pursue that exquisite stimulation into whatever dark recesses of her mind it might care to hide. Darkness of the Light
  • They came in twos and threes, creeping silently through the forest, with their flying arrows able to annihilate distance and bring down prey from the top of the loftiest tree without themselves climbing into it. CHAPTER XV
  • They're like tiny little orange triangular men, all silently judging you as you drive past them.
  • But he's a character you can't take your eyes off, even as you're silently abhorring the choices he makes. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Rampart
  • Hugging myself, I silently admitted that I missed her feisty behaviour and saucy manner.
  • Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing.
  • President Delaney, the Speaker of the House, and a bevy of civilian and military officials sat silently as the count slowly approached zero.
  • Tess cursed silently under her breath as she knew she could not stay in this hut.
  • ‘Maybe I'm… just not interested… at all,’ he mused silently.
  • And far from silently resenting the city fat cats, they believe top businessmen deserve success.
  • She simply walked up and down the floor silently, then picked up a cloth and mopped the blood from the floor.
  • But the coincidence of maps, girls, and rocketfalls has entered him silently, silent as ice, and Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways to freeze him. Gravity's Rainbow
  • The mystery was in all of their thoughts as silently and grimly they came alongside.
  • She took a sip of her iced tea, silently debating about whether to tell him or not.
  • She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip. CHAPTER XIX
  • The ripples silently hit the tub before crashing waves slapped against the metal sides.
  • He needn't have bothered, as I couldn't follow his jargoned explanation of nano-technology anyway, but I can tell you this much: The Flying Wi-Fi is about the size of a small moth, it can stealthily hover or remain stationary almost silently in any location, and it's equipped with an ultra-sensitive wi-fi camera (with an amazing wide-angle lens) and microphone. "The Flying Wi-Fi": Working Out the Bugs
  • Kel and Mithendil stood silently for a moment, watching the bobbing fluff of red hair disappear behind a building.
  • I didn't know what the feeling was, but suddenly he leapt forward and wrapped his arms around me, hugging me silently.
  • She fell back and tried again several times until, as I silently urged her on, she finally managed to get a toehold with her right front foot on top of the lower, two-board side of the corner.
  • He raised his glass, toasting his host and hostess silently, his smile serene, sincere.
  • Astonished and indignant at so sudden and violent an assault, Camilla stood suspended, whether to deign any vindication, or to walk silently away: yet its implications involuntarily filled her with a thousand other, and less offending emotions than those of anger, and a general confusion crimsoned her cheeks. Camilla
  • The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  • He unfolded the step-ladder, silently with a supercilious gesture of his hand declined my request to help him, and climbed right up to the roof.
  • He drew the curtains shut silently and turned around, not offering a word.
  • He nodded silently, scanning the paintings with impenetrable eyes.
  • -- unrespective _fame_; for which the modern editions have silently printed, Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead!
  • The mystery was in all of their thoughts as silently and grimly they came alongside.
  • Carter is talkative, though there are a few gaps where he sits silently watching the film.
  • A plain-faced vireo moved silently with the warblers.
  • Looking at the floor, he silently digested the information I had given him before concluding that my narrative was inaccurate.
  • The six-cylinder engine car has a four-speed gearbox and tall tires, allowing it to creep relatively silently over grassy and muddy terrain. The Tiger Car
  • Letting out a sigh, she turned to the lake, silently viewing its glorious wonders.
  • My eyes moved to his lips which were silently mouthing the words to the song.
  • She seethed silently in the corner.
  • The man stood silently for a moment before he spoke.
  • My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. Osho 
  • A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
  • But we did subvocalize the words silently, as it helped in being understood. Time For The Stars
  • The quality of standing behind and extending support to any social cause often goes silently unnoticed.
  • Unafraid and unhurried, the great black beast padded silently down the centre of the trail, not quite a cat but a fluid feline shape.
  • She was on the phone and he stood silently, filling the doorway, raising an eyebrow at her.
  • For three days they deployed themselves throughout the crow's-foot silently and without any helicopters flying near them, placing themselves in ambush position for the VC who would be coming their way. Chickenhawk
  • Victory, rendered cheap and easy by reason of the purblindness of the frantic cook, who was trying to persuade Mr. Green to raise his face from the floor so that he could punch it for him, remained with Joe and Ben, who, in reply to the angry shouts of the skipper from above, pointed silently to the combatants. A Master Of Craft
  • An elderly couple is silently eating chicken and mashed potatoes at a table by the window.
  • He couldn't show them that their words bothered him, so he sat silently in the corner, listening to the steady drip of a leak near him.
  • He silently shovelled food onto his plate and started eating.
  • He watched as an attendant standing 10 feet away pushed a key fob button, lifting the rear decklid and retracting the three-panel metal roof smoothly, silently into the ample stowage compartment.
  • Then it was over, and the skies were clear once more as Arcot lowered the protonic screen silently. Invaders from the Infinite
  • Galahad felt power rise in him again and silently commanded the sigil to disappear.
  • Her fingers silently moved over the patterns on the fret-board, bringing her a slight ghost of what she had felt earlier.
  • Along the way, which was only a five minute drive, Lyle silently listened to the uplifting music, and mentally psyched himself up for the date that was less than half an hour away from taking place.
  • Marisa and Helaina fell to the ground, eyes tearing… silently laughing-ya know when you laugh so hard nothing comes out?
  • Grace sighed, silently counting backwards from ten, trying to suppress her emotions and giving herself a few moments to gather her thoughts.
  • They stared silently at the impenetrable curtain surrounding the ship, and each face was tense with anxiety.
  • Silently, Shawn reached a hand into the right pocket on his jeans and withdrew a compact pocketknife, flicking it open.
  • The spiky-haired girl just stands there silently as she's accused of neglect.
  • He didn't shout, he just glared at me silently.
  • Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle. Chapter 17

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