Sentence examples for asked silence from inspiring English sources
The captain speaks to the Doctor, informing him that River has been trained to kill him by the Silence, a religious order that believes that when "the oldest question in the universe" is asked, silence will fall across the universe.
"What's the alternative?" she asks, "Silence?
"Anyone?" she asked, receiving silence in reply.
We should be starting shortly — we've been asked to silence our phones.
"Several times Ms. Jordan asked for silence, and several times you spoke," Mrs. Damiba hissed at the sixth-grade tables as the fifth graders marched to fetch their food.
When I was 14, I was sitting in a summer camp dining hall when the director asked for silence, announcing: "President Johnson has just signed the Voting Rights Act.
"The man asked for silence; give it to him; he doesn't know who he is," Jo, who is dying of some unnamed disease, says, from her reclining position on an Eames chair at the edge of the animated circle.
In other words, it's a way to not annoy others when watching a movie, play or other performance in a darkened room when you're asked to silence your devices.
"Is it diversity when it's almost entirely African Americans?" Strong asked (to silence from the audience).
