Sentence examples for if silently from inspiring English sources

North Carolina prides itself, if silently, on modesty.

All food, if silently offered to God with the proper prayers before eating, becomes consecrated and is thus considered prasada.

From colorful vintage posters that line the walls, a somber-faced man with sensitive dark eyes stares down at Mr. Feldman, as if silently urging him on.

She was the only kid in the theatre, and the other viewers glared at me, as if silently calling me an evil parent.

Long may that red, white and black pirate flag wave and Captain Kidd, or whoever he is, greet us smilingly, if silently, at the door.

Oh, how she beetled her lovely brow – almost as if silently drawing on her oft-mentioned doctoral thesis about murder and the modern novel.

He was mortified if anyone silently observed this ritual.

If they silently hoped that this was the Sabbath you would get hit by a car on your way home from synagogue and that would be the end of that.

And no utilitarian really cares if you silently take your sacrificial generosity to the grave, or parade up and down wearing a self-made halo and a T-shirt inscribed "Saint".

One established poet, with glasses and a walrus mustache, moved his hands, as if conducting silently from the back row, and when the climax came perfectly, and the poem ended in all its mystery and uplift, he was on his feet, yelling, Hell, yeah!

James Marsh, a Methodist minister, loves his God and his country and his baseball team but is queasy about when all of these things intersect at a baseball game in the form of "God Bless America". Marsh sits out the song when it is played at games — though, as he explains, not for the reasons people probably think if they silently or loudly judge him for it.