Sentence examples for interminable silence from inspiring English sources
By the end of the trip, most of the women have been claimed, and the rejects are packed off for Frauenstein: "In their latter-day tumbrels they were driven through streets of jeering males... and carted off into the interminable silence of the desert".
The road is bumpy, barren, stretching out from a town with no stoplights into a vast and desolate countryside blanketed in an interminable silence interrupted by the occasional chirping from a tree or rumbling of a train.
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The six sat around Cope's coffin among the fossils and Cope's pets, a tortoise and a Gila monster, for what Osborn called "a perfect Quaker silence ... an interminable length of time".
A few more bangs were followed by an interminable period of tense near-silence.
Only in the afternoon, after the ritual of the scarf soaked in orange-flower water and wrapped around her head, after some interminable moaning and a long, very long silence, would Mama remember me and take me in her arms.
"The silence that followed, as the night suddenly stood still, seemed interminable," he recalls years later.
In the lead-up to a grand final we want to make the noise ourselves, because silence actually serves as a more compelling backdrop than The Living End, or Ed Sheeran, or whatever interminable dross they're spraying at us this time.
" 'Interminable scherzo'?
