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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asks for silence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requesting or demanding quietness in a particular situation.
Example: "During the presentation, the speaker asks for silence to ensure everyone can hear the important information being shared."
Alternatives: "requests quiet" or "demands silence".
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He asks for silence.
Even so, it is a space that asks for silence.
Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the shock of it.
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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.
When I ask for silence, she engages a group of children in discussion.
Truth in Gestures Twice during the movie, Mr. Costner stopped talking altogether and held up his hand as if asking for silence.
"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.
The rescuers, Mr. Kasim said, start by dispersing the crowd and asking for silence so cries from under the debris can be heard.
Some of Neruda's poems — "I Ask for Silence," "Walking Around," "Ode to the Artichoke" — have been rendered into English repeatedly, each version another effort to make him current and vital to a new generation.
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.
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