Sentence examples for Silent from inspiring English sources

He said he had changed his mind about remaining silent about his detention despite risking having his books and pen taken from him.

It was followed by a moment of solidarity with the 400-strong audience taping their mouths as a form of silent protest.

He also said the corporate world had been "silent" on the issue of family violence and needed to take a stronger stance.

In many ways brain injury is a silent epidemic; its effects are not always visible and cannot be communicated easily.

And then, in the mid-1980s, there began a silent drift away from the family.

Instead I booked myself on a 10-day silent meditation retreat run by a Burmese monk in Thailand.

Jack Lieb captured the invasion on silent film for News of the Day and later narrated over the film for the archives.

But then he remained silent in the Commons as deputy chief whip (1953-55) and chief whip (1955-59), bemergingerging as labour minister.

Corruption went unchecked and the king remained silent over the Al-Yamamah arms deal, exposed in 2003 by the Guardian as a scandal implicating the British military contractor BAE Systems and Prince Sultan, Saudi minister of defence and also the crown prince.

Last week, Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, expressed his condolences for the victims of France but stayed silent on the Boko Haram attacks on Baga.

Prayers, led by a man with a pair of cymbals, started as slow chanting then accelerated and intensified as the sound of the cymbals rose from a tinkle to a crash before falling silent again.