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The phrase "afraid of silences" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who is nervous or uncomfortable in situations where there is long pauses in conversation and no-one speaks. For example: She was always afraid of silences, so she would nervously fill the gaps with small talk.
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Don't be afraid of silences.
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(The man is not afraid of silence).
"She told us she was afraid of silence".
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.
I'm not afraid of silence".
He wasn't afraid of silence.
Don't be afraid of silence or an extended eye lock.
To just be so comfortable in your skin that you're not afraid of silence sometimes.
He live tweets the experience to himself, as if afraid of silence.
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