Sentence examples for almost mute from inspiring English sources

Merkel, looking shell-shocked and haggard, was almost mute.

In fact, her condition worsened and she became totally withdrawn, frozen and almost mute.

Mrs. DuBois was almost mute, and communicated by singing and sign language.

The BBC – which by virtue of its sheer scale holds the ring of national debate – remained almost mute.

So uncommunicative that at times he seemed almost mute, he piped up enthusiastically in a hospital cafeteria line when a nearby conversation turned to professional football.

In Gombrowicz's absurdist play Princess Ivona, a prince marries an almost mute, unmemorable girl and finds that she excites aggression and shame in others.

Sébastien Dutrieux performs the almost-mute role of the Mouse in Colin's apartment, who, depressed by events, becomes the willing victim of a cat (Ansi Verwey).

The indefatigable 12-year-old protagonists on their bikes are straight out of Spielberg – especially when they find Eleven, an almost-mute girl with large eyes and strange powers who they have to hide in the basement and who gradually learns by their example what friendship and loyalty mean.

Because of his English-language voice work, GameSpot commented it would have preferred "an almost-mute lead character, a la Squall from Final Fantasy VIII".

(One legend holds that he was so traumatized by almost being sacrificed that he was rendered a near mute).

By this time, Lily was almost completely mute and would not leave her mother's side.