Sentence examples for became mute from inspiring English sources

He became mute and did not regain his speech until 1947.

My sister became mute," Armah, now an award-winning journalist and radio host, recalls.

Among the autobiographical details he reportedly told various people at various times: his parents had been kidnapped in South America and he needed to pay ransom; he and his friends were "Star Trek" groupies who conversed in Klingon; a private chef made four-course meals for his dogs; and he became mute as a child for 10 years because he was distraught at the death of his parents in a car crash.

The presidential conversation became mute.

According to family lore, young Nevelson was so forlorn about her father's departure that she became mute for six months.

He became mute and lost all feeling on the right side of his body, but was discharged from hospital and returned home to Hendon.

In Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963), a girl becomes mute after her parents' marriage dissolves.

Suddenly the traumatized boy is no longer the village big mouth: he has become mute.

In "Stab" Calvin becomes mute after his separated Siamese twin dies of leukemia.

Those most severely affected by Alzheimer's disease become mute and incapable of caring for themselves.

If she left, I would become mute, like those children who have witnessed horrible atrocities.