Sentence examples for asking for silence from inspiring English sources
Truth in Gestures Twice during the movie, Mr. Costner stopped talking altogether and held up his hand as if asking for silence.
The rescuers, Mr. Kasim said, start by dispersing the crowd and asking for silence so cries from under the debris can be heard.
He scraped the knife against a hone, crossing them above his head like a swashbuckler, and then, asking for silence, cleanly cut a first slice of white meat and placed it ceremoniously on my plate.
A bronze statue of a kneeling soldier, his face masked with gold, his finger to his lips as if asking for silence, was a votive offering to a Sumerian deity of an earlier age, while a ceramic goddess with wings and talons for feet is an exuberant arrival from cultural sources unknown.
Later it posted a picture of the entrance to the building showing a plaque asking for silence.
Rescuers at the scene of a collapsed school are asking for silence, as they listen for sounds below the rubble.
Even so, it is a space that asks for silence.
Before he and his aides began eating, he asked for silence and said grace.
Hilliard asked for silence as he read out the names of all 40 of the victims.
Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the shock of it.
