How do you use Silence in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like curb or conquer, plus the exact meaning.
Silence in a sentence
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Silence meaning
- The absence of any sound.
- The act of refraining from speaking.
- Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
Synonyms of Silence
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Using Silence
- The main meaning on this page is: The absence of any sound. | The act of refraining from speaking. | Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
- Useful related words include: uncommunicativeness, curb, conquer, subdue.
- Possible Dutch translations are: zwijgen.
- In the example corpus, silence often appears in combinations such as: of silence, to silence, silence and.
Context around Silence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Silence
- In this selection, "silence" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, approaching, faced, strict, hours, ward and staffs stand out and add context to how "silence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include back through silence or boycott and but that silence is suggestive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "silence" sits close to words such as approaches, completion and quarantine, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with silence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He doesn’t silence himself; we silence him. (8 words)
The Silence – God’s silence — the negative imprint. (8 words)
They did not silence me, and they will not silence me. (11 words)
Hortensia is not just a reliable Mage but also a valuable healer, since her learnable Silence Ward skill will protect allies and herself from falling victim to Silence staffs, which prevent enemies from utilizing staves and tomes for a turn. (40 words)
And you'll know yourself, the art of an interview is in disappearing a little bit — in knowing when not to speak, in knowing how to use silence, and that it's often in silence that people reveal themselves. (39 words)
The monastic vow of silence is solemn and unforgiving; we linger in a moment of silence to commemorate grim events; we punish each other for transgressions by responding to earnest entreaties with stone-faced silence. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The monastic vow of silence is solemn and unforgiving; we linger in a moment of silence to commemorate grim events; we punish each other for transgressions by responding to earnest entreaties with stone-faced silence.
Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.
Hortensia is not just a reliable Mage but also a valuable healer, since her learnable Silence Ward skill will protect allies and herself from falling victim to Silence staffs, which prevent enemies from utilizing staves and tomes for a turn.
She says she would sit in absolute silence and write, then she would sit in silence again when she needed to decompress from the writing.
They did not silence me, and they will not silence me.
Silence ensued, a silence that consumed Cherington for half a century.
Sunday, Spencer asked the crowd to observe a minute of silence for Floyd, asking a bystander to time the period of silence.
And you'll know yourself, the art of an interview is in disappearing a little bit — in knowing when not to speak, in knowing how to use silence, and that it's often in silence that people reveal themselves.
Of course, they may silence parliament for five weeks, but they cannot silence the people on the streets.
He doesn’t silence himself; we silence him.
He subsequently entered again for the prize in 2004 and won the award for the second time with his poetry collection–Between Silence and Silence.
In this regard “zones of silence” where people are talking back through silence or boycott might become a more visible part of the search for stable peace.
It said: “I hate night-times because night brings silence and silence brings tears of sadness, because that’s when I start to remember the blaze, the fire.
Practitioners must observe complete “noble silence”—which means “silence of body, speech, and mind”—and avoid eye contact with fellow meditators.
In the second chapter, Columbanus instructs that the rule of silence be "carefully observed", since it is written: "But the nurture of righteousness is silence and peace".
Many of Baba's followers continue to celebrate Silence Day by keeping silence in his honor.
Related and similar examples The pioneering French syntactician Lucien Tesnière came up with the French language sentence "Le silence vertébral indispose la voile licite" ("The vertebral silence indisposes the licit sail").
Silence was the only safe policy, but that silence is suggestive that grave danger was feared from his influence.
The live document Damage was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, Redemption – Approaching Silence, which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption).
The Silence – God’s silence — the negative imprint.
Common combinations with silence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of silence 32×
- to silence 19×
- silence and 19×
- in silence 18×
- the silence 16×
- silence on 14×
- his silence 13×
- her silence 11×
- silence in 10×
- silence for 8×