Sentence examples for merely silent from inspiring English sources

At the public portion of this hearing, Zubaydah was not merely silent, but silenced.

The nameless narrator of his artful novel "My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain" isn't merely silent; he's erased.

To win its case, the S.E.C. must prove that Goldman was not merely silent about Mr. Paulson's role but actually gave investors the wrong impression, experts in securities law said.

Evidence is to be seen in the once thriving ports around the shores of the Mediterranean that now are not merely silent ruins but seem so far from even sight of the sea that it is difficult to imagine the presence of seagoing ships at the wharves, the alignment of which can occasionally be traced in the fertile alluvial land now occupying the site.

Since the NRA couldn't prevent people from searching for tweets about it, and Twitter profiles aren't set up as forums between other users, it's understandable that the rifle association would leave the account merely silent.

Specifically, the conservative pattern of divergence would indicate that the ORFans are not merely silent prophage genes.

Had Sistani merely kept silent when Shia tribes asked him for permission to march north and "cleanse" Iraq, the country would look very different today.

At times, the dog was merely a silent witness to family scenes recorded by Mr. Duncan, as when Picasso amused his children by making — and wearing — a grotesque mask, and when he entertained Yves Montand and Simone Signoret over lunch.

After Mr. Comey's testimony last week, the Justice Department released a statement contesting Mr. Comey's account that Mr. Sessions had merely remained silent, and Mr. Sessions himself on Tuesday said directly and under oath that he did respond.

The boy did not cry out or weep but merely sat silent in this tortured posture until his failure to appear for breakfast brought his father upstairs to the bedroom's door.

I would like to hear the candidates include the issues relevant to those of us struggling as single Americans for a change, instead of being considered as merely the silent or invisible minority.