Sentence examples for left mute from inspiring English sources

A heavyset man, left mute by a stroke, stood behind his gate, watching, watching, watching.

20, when Bernard Monroe, a 73-year-old black man left mute from throat cancer, was shot to death in his front yard by a white police officer who claimed, contrary to other witnesses, that Mr. Monroe had a pistol.

Interrogated by the communist militia, the sisters endure sexual abuse in the basement of the town hall along with Ingel's seven-year-old daughter, who is left mute with shock.

And then each did the opposite of what he said he'd do — the hard-nosed dad, who said that kids can smell fear in their parents and will take advantage of it, let his daughter know that he was just glad she was all right, and the dad intent on communicating with his son was left mute when his son angrily brushed by him, saying, "I'll be in the car".

The illness that annihilated her sight and hearing, and left her mute, has never been diagnosed.

Her blackest depressions left her mute and catatonic, unable to recognize any semblance of hope.

The bundle of semiconductors that has been run down my throat has left me mute and quite parched.

The attack left him mute, unresponsive and suffering from what his psychiatrist, Dr. Ilan Kutz, described as a severe case of post-traumatic dissociation.

He writes about how he failed to foresee the collapse of the banks, and a stammer that left him mute at key moments in the Commons.

In a country where too many rules and a failure of nerve have often left people mute, he writes about a deaf-and-dumb foreigner who finds his voice in a strange land.

This is not an account of the tragedy that plays down the politics (Stewart's low-key, canny portrayal demonstrates that Claudius is the subtlest mind in the play after Hamlet) but the production ends with the arrival of a burly Fortinbras who is left standing mute in the doorway.