Silents is an English word with synonyms like pic or picture. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Silents meaning
plural of silent
Synonyms of Silents
Using Silents
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of silent
- Useful related words include: silent movie, pic, picture show, motion-picture show.
Context around Silents
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Silents
- In this selection, "silents" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sunday, northern, presents, sinfonia and pairs stand out and add context to how "silents" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the silents for nearly and piece northern silents sinfonia makes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "silents" sits close to words such as abdali, abdelfattah and abdulazeez, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with silents
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sunday Silents Presents:George Melies’ Trip to the Moon at the Rosendale Theater, 2pm. (14 words)
Sound films emphasized black history and benefited different genres more so than silents did. (14 words)
In fact, color was far more prevalent in silents than in sound films for decades. (15 words)
Film speed is often a vexed issue among scholars and film buffs in the presentation of silents today, especially when it comes to DVD releases of restored films ; the 2002 restoration of Metropolis (Germany, 1927) may be the most fiercely debated example. (42 words)
The innovative three-strip technicolor process introduced in the mid-30s was costly and fraught with limitations, and color would not have the same prevalence in film as it did in the silents for nearly four decades. (37 words)
After the interval, the sixteen-piece Northern Silents Sinfonia makes its debut with Lancashire-born conductor Helen Harrison, performing Chaplin’s own score to his 1921 heartwarming comedy, The Kid. (30 words)
Example sentences (7)
Sunday Silents Presents:George Melies’ Trip to the Moon at the Rosendale Theater, 2pm.
After the interval, the sixteen-piece Northern Silents Sinfonia makes its debut with Lancashire-born conductor Helen Harrison, performing Chaplin’s own score to his 1921 heartwarming comedy, The Kid.
Sound for Silents pairs silent films from the Walker’s collection with important Twin Cities music-makers.
Film speed is often a vexed issue among scholars and film buffs in the presentation of silents today, especially when it comes to DVD releases of restored films ; the 2002 restoration of Metropolis (Germany, 1927) may be the most fiercely debated example.
In fact, color was far more prevalent in silents than in sound films for decades.
Sound films emphasized black history and benefited different genres more so than silents did.
The innovative three-strip technicolor process introduced in the mid-30s was costly and fraught with limitations, and color would not have the same prevalence in film as it did in the silents for nearly four decades.