Sentence examples for could not be silent from inspiring English sources
"We could not be silent," she said.
My mother decided she could not be silent in the face of those young girls' illiteracy.
Speaking in Paris, he said the world could not be "silent spectators to slaughter" after Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons against its civilians.
I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.
It was a collective scream by a group of people who watched mass shooting after mass shooting— 133 in the first 164 days of 2016 and decided they could not be silent any longer.
It was one step short of full authenticity and there wasn't the kind of integrity in that act that I need to live by, so I couldn't be silent any more".
I felt like I couldn't be silent about it.
I couldn't be silent about it, both as a business partner and as a friend.
From then on, I couldn't be silent about it anymore," he tells me.
I felt he [Adams] had treated me and my kind with a contempt I couldn't be silent about".
