Sentence examples for growing silence from inspiring English sources

But the growing silence in their separate fitting rooms was telling.

Nazi escapees took advantage of this growing silence and amnesia to make their escape.

In the growing silence surrounding slavery, some black readers used "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a source of ideas, facts and images with which to grasp the humiliation, violence and continuing repercussions of the "peculiar institution".

In either case, there seems to be a growing silence fatigue -- public servants, some with vast experience, who feel they have spent years being treated like Victorian-era children, seen but not heard, and are tired of it.

The growing silence Beethoven experienced is hard for those who can hear to imagine: no change of atmosphere as you move from room to room, no rustle of paper; a dead world of aural nothingness.

Sunsets are best viewed with a Sundowner (a cocktail) in your hand, hors d'oeuvres on a small table outside of the vehicle, while enjoying the growing silence.

The sharp edges and growing silences of an unravelling relationship, the panicked receipt of information regarding a friend's medical crisis: a parking-lot phone call is one of immediacy or obligation, something you have to tend to when there's nowhere else to go.

In the immediate aftermath of the abuse and for years afterward as Hastert's popularity and power grew, silence seemed the best and only choice for his victims.

We had almost forgotten that this is how winter defines itself -- the crunch of artificial salt underfoot, the rasp of snow shovels on concrete, a day with all the color of a seagull's plumage, the sting of wind-blown snow in the ear, a growing, drifting silence as night sets in.

But even these numbers don't quite show the extent of the growing national silence around religion -- of a very particular sort.

Trees, flowers and grass grow in silence, Mother Teresa reminded us.