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The phrase "afraid of silence" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiom used to describe someone who is scared of silence or prefers to avoid it. For example, you could say, "John was always afraid of silence and would try to fill it with small talk."
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(The man is not afraid of silence).
"She told us she was afraid of silence".
Detectorists isn't afraid of silence, either, a quality seldom found in contemporary drama.
People listen superstitiously to the sounds in their heating ducts, to the banging of their radiators, afraid of silence.
"People are afraid of silence," argues Tenzin Palmo, an east Londoner who lived alone in a cave in the Himalayas for seven years.
She is afraid of silence, not the silence I experience here in Epidaurus, which is an unfathomable silence that might reform you - a silence worth taking back to the city - but one more desperate.
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Don't be afraid of silences.
We were afraid, but only a little afraid, of the silence around us".
Afraid of a silence, she went on, "I just didn't seem to meet any until I went to business college a little while ago".
In working with faculty who teach discussion-based courses, one pitfall is being afraid of the silence after asking a question.
Afraid of the silence?
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