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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "silent" in a sentence

    silent example sentences

    silent


    1. The drive would have been silent if it weren’t for Kevin


    2. Even the birds were silent


    3. Giving advice is tempting, but it is better ninety percent of the time to remain silent unless asked


    4. It is certainly difficult to remain silent when you see your grandchildren making poor decisions


    5. On the other end of the line, her handler stayed silent


    6. The secluded point to which one withdraws, is found to lie within oneself; the silent place in which the life of the soul is contacted is that point within the head where soul and body meet


    7. The world was silent for a moment but then there came a footstep in the snow,


    8. If the truth could harm others, it might be better to keep silent


    9. All was silent amid the


    10. Both fall silent

    11. The class falls silent, waiting


    12. He went silent, his whole body tensing in anticipation


    13. He was silent for a moment before giving me a square look in the eye


    14. He was silent for a minute, hopeful


    15. The house too remained hushed and silent


    16. All was silent, bar the


    17. The door opened slowly, swinging on silent hinges to reveal a blackness so


    18. The terrified man remained stubbornly silent


    19. Except, Johnny then realised that all was not silent


    20. As I had predicted, we resorted to getting a take-away but even so, we didn’t eat until nearly ten forty-five – a silent meal - after which, by tacit agreement, we all went to bed

    21. He’s silent for a moment when I have finished my recital


    22. said a silent prayer for the young Englishman’s soul


    23. Stephen is silent for a moment as though annoyed about this


    24. He was not down there with them filing onto the cold stone benches of Susa on a blustery evening, forced to bear silent witness to pronouncements they hardly supported


    25. but he remained silent


    26. After only a few seconds of silent flight with the debris field passing below, Burn’s voice spoke in his ear


    27. The rest of the disciples stay silent and calm, as if that were something absolutely natural, something you see every day


    28. There is the vocal minority and the silent majority in most business


    29. I retreated back to the safest place I knew: the silent world of Marwan Tayeh the hostage


    30. Numb now, I gazed at the silent television screen, watching black and white figures move through a scene of domestic strife, unable for the moment to comprehend what a lawnmower might be used for

    31. I think the trip took about two hours, the second of which was one long febrile, mad-dog but inevitably silent tirade


    32. So also, if you are the silent reserved type and the other person too is the silent reserved type, the there wil hardly be any dialogue at all! The word over here is “compatible


    33. The television in the kitchen was silent


    34. They did have some silent little motors that could move them sedately thru the canals


    35. For a moment or two, she twirled in a spasm of incredible intensity; then the sorceress fell silent, wrapped herself in her black mantle and vanished in an ethereal green cloud


    36. They were silent awhile


    37. “This is one of the countless Cities of the Dead; This is where souls with an affinity to the elements of air and water come, after the loss of their physical body,” he explained with a silent voice and an enigmatic smile


    38. "Alan is not, and we know that in the right hands he cannot keep silent


    39. In a corner, Citizen Marat’s severed head, trailing veins and cables, ground out one last phrase on behalf of the revolutionary committee of the brotherhood of new men before dropping its eyelids and falling permanently silent


    40. Kara very sensibly stayed silent until he had worked it out of his system

    41. Those that are silent until called upon are those that speak more – even with using fewer words


    42. Somehow he managed to evade all the welcome and noise and bustle and sneak her into the house and along the shadowy, silent hallways to her bed chamber


    43. For all that, she was immensely grateful for his mostly silent, supportive presence


    44. of tears cried into cut glass when the house fell silent


    45. warehouses stand stocked and silent,


    46. comes the silent song bird


    47. Luray was silent awhile, then said, "I think I've had two children of this body in my life, the one with Knume at the beginning of the 52nd, and another one back in the 41st, fourteen centuries ago


    48. As he got closer, he had to be even more silent or they would hear him and peer intently in his direction again


    49. giggles and they too were silent


    50. A real nice crossbow and some arrows caught his eye, silent, but deadly














































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    Synonyms for "silent"

    dumb mute silent unsounded mum tacit understood soundless still quiet noiseless hushed calm reserved close-mouthed taciturn unsaid voiceless dormant inactive quiescent

    "silent" definitions

    marked by absence of sound


    failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to


    implied by or inferred from actions or statements


    not made to sound


    having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility


    unable to speak because of hereditary deafness